It is a situation when a worker noticed that one of his colleagues is working all day and all night without taking a rest. He then said the following:
それじゃいくつからだがあってもたりゃしねえ。
Then his hard-working colleague said this:
なあにおれのからだは人一倍がんじょうだから...
Questions:
- Is the sentence それじゃ... a question or just an opinion or something else? could it always be a question if it contains the word いくつ?
It is a statement, not a question.
Whether or not 「いくつ」 makes the sentence a question depends on the other words used (and the sentence structure).
「いくつからだがあっても」 here means "no matter how many bodies you've got"
- What does the word 「あってもたりゃ」mean?
「あってもたりゃしねえ」(Kanto tough guy speech)
=「あっても[足]{た}りはしない」(Dictionary form of above)
=「あっても足りない」(Simplified)
= "will never be enough" 「足りる」 means "to be satisfactory in quantity"
The first sentence means:
"That way (← "If you work like that"), no matter how many bodies you've got, it won't be enough!"
