Experience with sleepovers with 〜た＋ことがある
Grammar Explanation: Previous experience with 〜た＋ことがある
Cocoa thinks Rize is nervous about staying overnight with her and Chino.
- リゼ:
- 「いや… 親父の部下に誘われたワイルドなキャンプしか経験した事ないから…」
- “Well... I've only had the experience of those wild camping trips my dad's subordinates invited me on...”
- Literal: “Well... because I have no thing experienced except wild camps my dad's subordinates invited me to...”
- “Well... I've only had the experience of those wild camping trips my dad's subordinates invited me on...”
- ココア:
- 「ワイルド？」
- “Wild?”
Key Points
1〜た事がある = have had the experience of…
- The highlighted pattern expresses past experience at least once.
- Here Rize is saying the only kind of overnight experience she has had is camping.
2Casual negative: した事ない
- The full form is した事がない, with が omitted in casual speech.
- So しか した事ない means “I’ve done nothing except that”.
3しか〜ない = nothing but
- 「キャンプしか…した事ない」 means camping is the only kind of stay-over experience she knows.
- That is why she sounds uncertain about an ordinary sleepover.
4The long noun phrase modifies the camping trips
- 「親父の部下に 誘われた ワイルドなキャンプ」 means “wild camping trips I was invited on by my dad’s subordinates”.
- That whole chunk is what 経験した and した事がある refer to.
Vocabulary
親父 (Old man)
親父 means dad, old man, or pops in rough, familiar speech. It is a casual and often masculine way to refer to one’s father, and by extension can also refer to an older man or a shop owner. In family use, it sounds much less formal than 父親 and carries the tone of blunt familiarity.
経験 (Experience)
経験 means experience, either what one has gone through or the knowledge gained from doing so.
See Also
- External: Past tense with 〜た・〜だ
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