Sitting down in a place with 座り込む
Vocabulary Explanation: Words ending in 込む
The Winter Cup basketball tournament has arrived, and Taiki is there to cheer on Chinatsu in the competition. He’s feeling so nervous that his legs give out and he falls into a crouch on the ground outside the event. In this state, he doesn’t see his upperclassman from the badminton club approaching.
- 針生:
- 「そんなとこ座り込んで迷惑だろ」
- “Sitting there like that is a nuisance.”
Key Points
1座り込む = “sit down and remain there”
- 座る simply describes sitting; here 〜込む adds the sense of settling into the seated position and staying put.
2Casual location phrase: そんなとこ(に)
- そんなとこ is a conversational shortening of そんなところ, “a place like that” or “there like that”.
- The location particle に is omitted after とこ: そんなとこ(に)座り込んで.
3迷惑だろ = “That is a nuisance, right?”
- The て-form connects Taiki’s position to the judgment that follows: sitting there like that is causing trouble.
- だろ is the casual form of だろう. Here it sounds more like a blunt admonition than a neutral request for agreement.
See Also
- Grammar: Presuming with 〜だろう and 〜でしょう
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