くちゃは？

[tanuki]

Hello, people!

How are you doing? I learned that (one of many ways of) saying "I must go" is:

行かなくてはダメ

Now, I learned that a casual version to the くて is くちゃ, and that you can leave the rest and just say 行かなくちゃ. However, what if I wanted to say the rest? Would it be:

行かなくちゃダメ

or

行かなくちゃはダメ ?

My logic says "the は version", however I heard a song when they used this structure without the は. Now, I know songs are usually gramatically incorrect because of rythm, etc., so they might just have decided not to say that は intentionally (EDIT: decided intentionally? God, I hope my English teacher won't read this! ). That's why I'm asking you guys .

Thanks in advance for your replies, bye!

[hungryhotei]

ちゃ　is the abbreviation of ては　not　くて. With that all of your problems should be solved.

[defrex]

There is nothing wrong with 'decided intentionally', BTW.

[keatonatron]

Listen to the Hungry Hungry Hotei.

Oh how I wish that were a board game involving marbles and lots of hitting.

[tanuki]

ちゃ　is the abbreviation of ては　not　くて. With that all of your problems should be solved.

Well, not all of my problems, but it did solve this one. Thanks.

There is nothing wrong with 'decided intentionally', BTW.

Can you decide something unintentionally?

keatonatron wrote:
Listen to the Hungry Hungry Hotei.

Oh how I wish that were a board game involving marbles and lots of hitting.

Huh? I think I'm missing something here...

[richvh]

American board game of some years back, "Hungry Hungry Hippos". Involves up to 4 players and a lot of marbles. Each player hits the lever that causes the hippo heads to chomp down, hopefully gobbling a marble. Person who ends up with the most marbles wins.

Here's a picture

[defrex]

hmm, well, say you have a decision to make, and you don't intend to make it. Just let it pass by. However, unintentionally, you do something that makes the decision set.

You have decided something unintentionaly.

^_^

[two_heads_talking]

defrex wrote:
hmm, well, say you have a decision to make, and you don't intend to make it. Just let it pass by. However, unintentionally, you do something that makes the decision set.

You have decided something unintentionaly.

^_^

you are splitting hairs as you decided nothing.. but your actions caused it to be decided for you.. intentional or otherwise..