When you're small with 〜うちは
Grammar Explanation: While with 〜うちは
During a visit with Anzu’s family, Makoto receives a request to babysit for another witch. Things are fine at first, but after a while, rain begins to pour inside. Anzu’s mother realizes that the child they’re watching over has rain magic.
- 杏子の母:
- 「小さいうちはコントロールできないんだろうね。不安になると今みたいに降らせちゃうんだね」
- “You don't have control while you're small, right? When he's uneasy, it pours like just now.”
- 真琴:
- 「なるほど。そうですよね。いきなり知らない所じゃ心細いですよ。我慢してたんですね」
- “I see. So that's it. It's a little scary suddenly being in a place you don't know. You've been patient, haven't you?”
Key Points
1小さいうち means while someone is still small
- 小さいうち frames childhood as the period when control is difficult.
- The focus is on a temporary stage that will eventually change.
2コントロールできないんだろうね is an explanatory guess
- んだろうね means the mother is reasoning it out gently.
- She is explaining the rain magic rather than blaming the child.
3降らせちゃう is casual 降らせてしまう
- 不安になると means “when he gets uneasy”.
- 今みたいに降らせちゃう says he ends up making it rain like now, with ちゃう adding the sense of an unintended result.
See Also
- Grammar: Likening things with 〜みたい
- Grammar: Presuming with 〜だろう and 〜でしょう
- Grammar: Doing completely or ending up doing with 〜てしまう and 〜ちゃう
- Kanji: Negation and lack with 不
- Kanji: Peace and ease with 安
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