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Went and brought the wrong textbook with 〜ちゃう

Grammar Explanation: Doing completely or ending up doing with 〜てしまう and 〜ちゃう

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Mina is startled to learn that today is Friday.

ミナ:
「どうしよう！！木曜日(もくようび)の教科書(きょうかしょ)持(も)ってきちゃったよ！」
“What'll I do?! I ended up bringing my textbook for Thursday!”
Literal: “What should I do!! I ended up bringing Thursday's textbook!”
ユカリ:
「相(あい)変(か)わらずドジねー。」
“You're such a klutz, as usual.”

Key Points

1持(も)ってきちゃった = ended up bringing
  • 持(も)ってきちゃった is casual speech for 持(も)ってきてしまった, showing that Mina has done something unfortunate and now has to deal with the result.
2Breaking down 持(も)ってくる
  • 持(も)ってくる means “bring” or “bring along” from the speaker’s viewpoint.
  • Here it appears as 持(も)ってきちゃった, where き is the stem of くる before ちゃった.
3よ marks Mina’s alarm
  • The sentence-ending よ pushes the information outward, matching Mina blurting out the problem to Yukari and Sanae.
  • Together with どうしよう, it makes the line sound panicked rather than calmly explanatory.

Vocabulary

(Thursday)

木曜日(もくようび) means Thursday.

(Textbook)

教科書(きょうかしょ) means a textbook for a school subject or course.

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