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Wasn't it a shock with 〜だろう

Grammar Explanation: Presuming with 〜だろう and 〜でしょう

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Cocoa isn’t certain why Chino is upset, until Rize explains what it meant when Cocoa completed the puzzle Chino had been working on a little each day.

リゼ:
「楽(たの)しみが取(と)られてショックだろうな」
“It must have been a shock to have her fun be taken away.”
Literal: “Having her fun taken away is probably a shock.”
ココア:
「わたし…　わたし…」
“I... I...”

Key Points

1ショックだろう marks Rize’s informed guess
  • Rize infers Chino’s feelings from the lost puzzle activity and says she must be shocked.
2だろう expresses probability rather than certainty
  • The English “must have been” conveys a strong inference here.
3な turns the statement into reflection
  • The final な sounds like Rize thinking through Chino’s reaction for Cocoa.

Vocabulary

(To take)

取(と)る means to take or obtain something. Its exact sense depends on what is being taken.

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