Don't underestimate bread-baking with 〜てはいけない

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Cocoa prepares to teach her friends how to bake bread.

ココア:
「みんな パン(つく)りをなめちゃいけないよ!」
“Everyone, don't underestimate bread making!”
Literal: “Everyone, it must not be that you look down on bread making!”

Key Points

1なめちゃいけない warns against underestimating bread making
  • Cocoa says treating bread making with little respect would be wrong, giving the line the force of a warning.
2ちゃ contracts ては
  • なめてはいけない becomes なめちゃいけない in casual speech.
3よ directs the lesson at the group
  • みんな names Cocoa’s audience, and final presents the warning as information they need before starting.
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