Isn't the café named as such with 〜でしょう
Grammar Explanation: Presuming with 〜だろう and 〜でしょう
Now that she’s a barista at the Rabbit House café, Cocoa suggests an improvement for their barista uniforms.
- ココア:
- 「このお店の名前ラビットハウスでしょう？」
- “This place is called Rabbit House, right?”
- Literal: “This shop's name is Rabbit House, right?”
- 「ウサ耳つけないの？」
- “How about if we add bunny ears?”
- チノ:
- 「ウサ耳なんてつけたら違う店になってしまいます」
- “If we put on bunny ears, it would turn into a different kind of shop.”
Key Points
1でしょう asks for confirmation
- In ラビットハウスでしょう, Cocoa is not making a wild guess. She expects Chino to agree that the café is called Rabbit House.
- Here でしょう is close to “right?” or “isn’t it?”
2Omitted particle は
- The topic marker は is omitted after このお店の名前 in the casual spoken line.
- The noun phrase このお店の名前 means “the name of this shop”.
3でしょう attaches to the whole statement
- The underlying statement is 「このお店の名前はラビットハウスだ」, meaning: “This shop is called Rabbit House.”
- Changing だ to でしょう turns it into a soft confirmation question.
4なってしまいます marks an unwanted result
- In 違う店になってしまいます, Chino says adding bunny ears would end up making Rabbit House into a different kind of shop.
- The polite 〜てしまいます adds the sense that this result would be undesirable or regrettable.
Vocabulary
この (This)
この means “this” or “these” and comes directly before a noun. It points to something near the speaker or something the speaker is referring to in the conversation.
名前 (Name)
名前 means a name, the word used to identify a person or thing.
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