Wondering about lodger duties elsewhere with 〜だろう
Grammar Explanation: Presuming with 〜だろう and 〜でしょう
Since Cocoa helps out at Chino’s house where she’s saying, she considers the situation if she were instead staying with Chiya.
- ココア:
- 「私の下宿先が千夜ちゃんの家だったらここでお手伝いさせてもらったんだろうなー」
- “If my lodging was at Chiya's house, I wonder if I'd be made to help out here.”
- Literal: “If my lodging place had been Chiya's house, I suppose I would have been allowed to help out here.”
Key Points
1下宿先が千夜ちゃんの家だったら sets an imagined condition
- Cocoa considers the unreal case in which she lodges at Chiya’s house instead of Chino’s.
2お手伝いさせてもらった describes help she would have been allowed to give
- させてもらう frames helping at the teahouse as an action Cocoa would receive permission or an opportunity to perform.
3んだろうなー marks a reflective supposition
- だろう makes the imagined work a probable consequence of staying with Chiya, while final なー lets Cocoa think it over aloud.
- ちゃん is an affectionate, informal suffix attached to names, used mainly for children, close friends, and family members.
Vocabulary
私 (I)
私 means “I” or “me”. It is the standard first-person pronoun in polite speech and is also common in casual speech among women.
See Also
- Grammar: Presuming with 〜だろう and 〜でしょう
- Future entry: If and when with 〜たら
- Grammar: Having someone do something with 〜てもらう
- Grammar: Presuming with 〜だろう and 〜でしょう
- Kanji: Privacy and self with 私
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