Japanese with Manga

Experienced a situation in a comic with 〜た＋ことがある

Grammar Explanation: Previous experience with 〜た＋ことがある

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Rize and Chino watch as Cocoa and another girl reach for the same teacup in a shop.

チノ:
「こんなシチュエーション漫画(まんが)でみたことあります」
“I've seen this kind of situation in manga before.”
Literal: “I have a thing where I saw this kind of situation in manga.”
リゼ:
「よく恋愛(れんあい)に発展(はってん)するよな」
“This kind of thing often leads to romance.”

Key Points

1見(み)たことあります reports prior experience
  • Chino says she has encountered this kind of scene in manga before.
2The past form comes before ことがある
  • 見(み)る becomes 見(み)た, and こと turns the past action into an experience that can be said to exist.
3漫画(まんが)で marks where she encountered it
  • で identifies manga as the medium in which Chino has seen the situation, not the location of the characters’ current meeting.
4よく〜する describes a recurring tendency
  • Rize says scenes like this often develop into romance. Final よな invites recognition of that familiar pattern.

Vocabulary

(Manga)

漫画(まんが) means manga or comics, which tell stories or jokes through drawings, panels, and dialogue.

(To see)

見(み)る means to see or look at something. It can also mean to examine its condition or nature.

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