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Re-imagining oneself with 〜直す

Grammar Explanation: Doing better with 〜直す

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After imagining her future self, Cocoa realizes her image came out wrong.

ココア:
「あ　ちょと間違(まちが)えた。やり直(なお)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(なお)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(なお)す
  • やる becomes やり, and 直(なお)す adds the sense of repeating the action in a corrected way.
3The line omits the final verb ending
  • やり直(なお)し is a clipped, noun-like announcement of a redo rather than the full やり直(なお)す.

See Also

  • External: Past tense with 〜た・〜だ
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