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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

Manga panel from あしたは土曜日 showing example of Went and brought the wrong textbook with 〜ちゃう.
あしたは土曜日 » Volume 春・夏 » Page 10

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!”
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.

  2. Breaking 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.