Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (April 01, 2023)

5 comments

1. How do I use お互い? It feels like a simple word but I just don’t understand its meaning and usage in a sentence quite well.

2. Am I right in interpreting this as a double negative? Context being a wandering monk on his way a shrine sees a dummy thicc lady at a guesthouse but has to leave, promising to return.

   note: 熊野神社 = Kumanojinsha (place name)

   私は熊野神社に行かなくてはいけません

   “I can’t not go to Kumanojinsha” or more literally “As for me, to Kumanojinsha not going is not allowed”

   Grammar being 行かなくて a negative te, then てはいけません being a prohibition on the te-verb before it?

   Edit: Oh no, he hit it and quit it and got burnt to death trapped in a bell. That’s whack and not a romantic love story at all.

3. 　赤ん坊にできることは少ない。せいぜい抱き上げられた拍子に胸に顔を埋

   めるぐらいだ。

   　メイドにそれをやる**とは**あからさまに嫌そうな顔をする。

   とは is the conditional と and the は is downplaying the severity of burying his face in boobs right? I don’t think i’ve ever seen that before so just making sure, とは has always been the quotation と

4. Is the sentence: “日記をつけるが始めた” grammatically correct? I’m trying to say: “I started keeping a diary.” I’m particularly unsure about using verbs as the subject of a sentence. Is this usage correct, or is there a better way to phrase it?

   (Thank you in advance for any responses, and I apologize for my poor writing skills!)

5. 「オレら先行ってっからー」What’s the meaning of “っから” here? Is it the 7th definition of から in [jisho.org](https://jisho.org)?(expresses sympathy or warning)