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Ok, so I've been reading よつばと recently, and I've been seeing a suffix coming up that I cannot seem to find a meaning for. It's not in any dictionary, and I'm not sure if it's a name suffix, or some obscure grammatical marker I've never heard before. Here's an example:
おばあちゃんちから帰ってきたら夏休みも後半って感じするなー
What does the ち after おばあちゃん indicate? Is it actually doing something in the sentence, or is it a soft version of ちゃん? That's my hypothesis, but I'd like confirmation.
It's short for の家{うち}.
You will normally see the abbreviation んち:
(1a) 俺の家に来い。
(1b) 俺んちに来い。
(2a) お前の家に行きたいなぁ。
(2b) お前んちに行きたいなぁ。
But in cases where there is already an ん before the abbreviation (like おばあちゃん ends in ん in this case) we just see ち:
(3a) タモリさんの家に行きたい。
(3b) タモリさんちに行きたい。
(4a) 明日麻美ちゃんの家に行く。
(4b) 明日麻美ちゃんちに行く。
So your sentences means:
おばあちゃんの家から帰ってきたら夏休みも後半って感じするなー
