Re-learning how to swim with 〜直す
Grammar Explanation: Doing better with 〜直す
Cocoa and her friends visit an indoor hot spring. Rize admits she doesn’t know how to swim.
- ココア:
- 「私のクロール見てー」
- “Look at my front crawl!”
- シャロ:
- 「泳ぎ方を覚え直した方がいいわね」
- “You'd better learn how to swim over again.”
- Literal: “It would be better to relearn the way to swim.”
Key Points
1覚え直す means learning again with a correction
- Syaro says Cocoa needs to replace her mistaken swimming method, not repeat the same practice unchanged.
2覚える uses its stem before 直す
- 覚える becomes 覚え, then 直す creates the corrective repetition verb.
3た方がいい turns the redo into advice
- 覚え直した方がいい means Cocoa would be better off relearning how to swim.
4見て is a casual request
- A sentence ending in the て-form can leave ください unstated. The long てー stretches Cocoa’s call for attention.
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.
見る (To see)
見る means to see or look at something. It can also mean to examine its condition or nature.
See Also
- Grammar: Doing better with 〜直す
- Grammar: Giving advice with 〜た＋方がいい
- Grammar: Connecting actions with 〜て・〜で
- Kanji: Privacy and self with 私
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