Re-imagining oneself with 〜直す
Grammar Explanation: Doing better with 〜直す
Cocoa imagines her future self, but the image isn’t quite right.
- ココア:
- 「あ ちょっと間違えた。やり直し」
- “Ah, I made a little mistake. I'll do it over.”
- Literal: “Ah, I made a little mistake. Doing it over.”
Key Points
1やり直し means doing the imagined scene over
- Cocoa decides to restart after noticing that her first version of the future came out wrong.
2やる uses its stem before 直す
- やる becomes やり, and 直す adds the sense of repeating the action in a corrected way.
3The line omits the final verb ending
- やり直し is a clipped, noun-like announcement of a redo rather than the full やり直す.
See Also
- Grammar: Doing better with 〜直す
- Future entry: Past tense with 〜た・〜だ
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