ゴドウィン and the Chancellor, part 3
Words/kanji covered: 時: hour 時に: by the way 私: I/me こと: a bunch of possible phrases 事: see こと above 忘れる: to forget 分かる: to understand いざ: now, well 切り: end
It turns out that I got the screenshots from this conversation out of order when I was viewing them in my Steam collection. I'll have to be more careful about that in the future. Anyway, let's finish this conversation!
Chancellor: 「その時には私のことをお忘れなく、」
その: the “determiner” again, we've seen it before. 時(とき)に: by the way, sometimes, precisely then. 時 is the kanji for an hour, also. 私(わたし): DuoLingo covers this one pretty early on, and you probably hear it a lot in animé too. It means “me”! こと: this can be read multiple ways, but Jisho suggests 事(こと）. The tenth definition is fitting, because “you should; I advise that you; it's important to” seems like something the chancellor would say. Also for several of these definitions, Jisho notes that the word is often written with kana alone, so it makes sense then that we'd see こと instead of 事. 忘(わす)れなく: don't forget! This is a form of the verb 忘れる, which means to forget. In total, it seems that the Chancellor is asking ゴドウィン to not forget him.
One more bit from the Chancellor! 「わかりました。 いざというときの切りふだですな。」 わかりました: We learned わかる on WaniKani as 分かる, and it means to understand, or to be understandable. Replacing る with りました makes it past-tense and positive, so “I understood”. いざ: now, well. という: this one is complicated. Here is a good article about it. I need to make more sense of this later. とき: this is one of the readings of 時, time. 切(き)り: end. ふだですな: a bunch of verbs, I can't make much sense of them. Machine translation offers too many possible results. The Chancellor is saying something about understanding now and a time's end.
It seems fitting, then, that we wrap up this conversation here. Next time, モニカ will return and カタリナ will make her first appearance! And I'll hopefully get the dialogue in the correct order!
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