Place of lodging with 〜先
Vocabulary Explanation: Place where something is done with 〜先
Since Cocoa helps out at Chino’s house where she’s saying, she considers the situation if she were instead staying with Chiya.
- ココア:
- 「私の下宿先が千夜ちゃんの家 だったらここでお手伝い させてもらったんだろうなー」
- “If my lodging place were Chiya-chan's house, I probably would've been allowed to help out here.”
Key Points
1下宿先 means the place where someone lodges
- 〜先 names the place associated with the action, so Cocoa refers to her lodging destination.
2だったら sets an imagined condition
- Cocoa imagines the counterfactual case “if my lodging place were Chiya’s house”.
3させてもらったんだろう expresses a probable permitted action
- Cocoa supposes she would have received permission to help at the shop, and だろうなー marks her reflection about that unreal situation.
Vocabulary
私 (I)
私 means “I” or “me”. It is the standard first-person pronoun in polite speech and is also common in casual speech among women.
See Also
- Vocabulary: Place where something is done with 〜先
- Grammar: Presuming with 〜だろう and 〜でしょう
- Grammar: Having someone do something with 〜てもらう
- Kanji: Privacy and self with 私
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