Receiving involvement with 〜れる
Grammar Explanation: Receptive verbs with 〜れる
Chiya and Cocoa play chess at an indoor hot spring.
- チノ:
- 「私が勝ったらココアさんに逆にお姉さんと呼んでもらう事にしましょう」
- “If I win, I'll have Cocoa call me her big sister instead.”
- ココア:
- 「なんで巻き込まれてるの!?」
- “Why am I getting dragged into this!?”
- Literal: “Why am I receiving being dragged in!?”
Key Points
1巻き込まれてる means being dragged into a situation
- Cocoa receives the effect of a bet made by other people, even though she did not agree to take part.
2巻き込む becomes 巻き込まれる
- The godan verb uses 巻き込ま plus れる. 巻き込まれてる contracts the continuing form 巻き込まれている.
3なんで〜の asks for an explanation
- Cocoa omits “I” and “this bet” because both are clear from the scene. The final の gives her protest an explanatory question tone.
4私が勝ったら sets Chino’s proposed condition
- The bet only applies if Chino wins, and ことにしましょう proposes adopting that result as the rule.
5お姉さんと呼んでもらう treats the name as a favor
- と marks the name Cocoa would use, while 〜てもらう frames Chino as receiving that action from her.
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
- Grammar: Receptive verbs with 〜れる
- Future entry: If and when with 〜たら
- Grammar: Having someone do something with 〜てもらう
- Grammar: Quoting and reporting with と and って
- Grammar: Volitional with 〜う・〜よう
- Kanji: Privacy and self with 私
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