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I have come across two sentences in a manga that is using くん in a way that I can't seem to find any information on, in both my books and online. I am guessing this may be some sort of slang, odd grammar or a compound of words/grammar that dictionaries don't seem to pick up on.

「おめーはちょくちょくうちの晩飯　食いにくんなー」

and

「てゆーか　なんで連れてくんだ？」

Slight edit: maybe this is some form of 来る？

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Yes, I believe it's a contraction of くる. Although the second example could possibly be a contraction of 連れていく depending on the context.

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  • So, you're saying なんで連れてくんだ means なんで連れて来るんだ, "why do you take (somebody) here?" and that it could also be なんで連れて行くんだ, "Why are you taking (someone)(somewhere)?" depending on the context, right?
    – user1016
    Commented Mar 7, 2013 at 17:19
  • @Chocolate: Yes, that what I meant.
    – istrasci
    Commented Mar 7, 2013 at 17:46
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I think it is two different things in your two sentences:

  1. くる→くん (similar sound change to わからない→わかんない)

  2. shortened form of 連れていく + んだ (のだ)

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    Why did you get downvoted? Your answer is basically the same as mine...
    – istrasci
    Commented Mar 7, 2013 at 16:13
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I think in regular Japanese it would be:

「おめーはちょくちょくうちの晩飯　食いにくるなー」

「というか、　なんで連れていくんだ？」

I don't think in the second sentence its くる, since the る　contracts to ん, if we were to reformulate the sentence it would be

「というか、なんで連れてくるだ？」

Which I think it's gramatically incorrect. Most probably this ん is the nominalizer の used in the pattern　のだ and abbreviated to んだ. At least that's the way I see it =)

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    連れてくるんだ can be contracted to 連れてくんだ just as 何するんだよ!? can be contracted to 何すんだよ!?
    – user1016
    Commented Mar 7, 2013 at 23:27
  • See I didnt know that! Always nice learning a little everyday ^^
    – Rodrigo Pará
    Commented Mar 8, 2013 at 13:37

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