Your allowance of a rowing technique with 〜させてもらいます
Grammar Explanation: Having someone do something with 〜てもらう
Akatsuki asks Akari for a gondola ride to his destination. Along the way, he asks whether he’ll make his deadline. Akari suggests Alicia should take over, but Akatsuki says he’s Akari’s customer (and paying the cheaper fare). Realizing her responsibility, Akari turns the gondola around so she can use her high-speed backward rowing. Alicia apologizes to Akatsuki for the turnaround.
- アリシア:
- 「今からお客様の視界を遮る漕ぎ方をさせてもらいます」
- “From now on, she'll be using a rowing technique that blocks your view.”
- Literal: “From now on, we will receive your allowing us to use a rowing method that blocks the customer's view.”
- 暁:
- 「むぅ？」
- “Mm?”
Key Points
1〜させてもらいます = “we will be allowed to…”
- Alicia frames the action as 漕ぎ方をさせてもらいます: literally, “We will receive your allowing us to use this rowing method.”
- In context, it is a polite service-style announcement: “please allow us to…”
2The action is the whole noun phrase before を
- お客様の視界を遮る漕ぎ方 means “a rowing method that blocks the customer’s view”.
- That entire phrase is the object of させてもらいます: Alicia is asking permission to use that specific rowing technique.
3Two を, each with its own verb
- 視界を belongs to 遮る inside the modifier clause: the technique blocks the customer’s view.
- 漕ぎ方を marks the whole technique as the object of させてもらいます.
Vocabulary
視界 (Field of view)
視界 means one’s field of vision or how clearly one can see it.
See Also
- Grammar: Having someone do something with 〜てもらう
- Grammar: Making and letting with 〜せる・〜させる
- Grammar: Marking the direct object with を
- Kanji: Boundaries and worlds with 界
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