Would you please tell me what あの子、あんなんだしさ means?
and then she said あの子を理解してあげられる人なんて たぶんごく僅かだと思うのよ。。。
The person who said this phrase is a mother talking with her son's friend about her son.
Thank you in advance
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More context would be appreciated.– 永劫回帰Commented Jun 22, 2016 at 12:08
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"My son is such one"? As 永劫回帰 san is telling, more context would help the answerers.– user7644Commented Jun 22, 2016 at 12:15
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Without the preceding context needed to identify who is being talked about and the relation to the speaker (probably a child of the speaker's as others have said). A loose and idiomatic translation: "The boy's just always doing things like that... you could probably count on one hand the number of people who take the time to understand what really makes him tick".– BrandonCommented Jun 22, 2016 at 17:40
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It means something like
He's always like that
- あの子 (or この子 if the child is nearby) is a standard way of referring to your own child in conversation.
- (だし)さ is displaying a mild concern (he's always playing with his food, he's always getting his clothes dirty, etc.)
- し is actually the listing particle ～し～し, but often used by itself for emphasis in colloquial speech, implying there are many more things she (presumably as mother) is concerned about
- あんなんだ = あんな+ん+だ, where あんな (sibling of こんな and そんな) means "such a"
- ん = の is "one" (as in "the red one")
answered Jun 22, 2016 at 12:27
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2「あんなんだ(し)」の意味は「あんなのだ(から)」「あんなふうだ(から)」とか「あんな調子だ(から)」に近いかなと思います– chocolate ♦Commented Jun 22, 2016 at 13:47