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I'm translating a song and came across this line:
感じなくなっちゃえばいい
At first I thought it was:
感じる in negative te-form + しまう in conditional ば form + いい
But I think there's something wrong or something I'm ignoring. If I rewrite the sentence the way I think it is, it would be like:
感じる ---> 感じなくて
~てしまえば ---> ~ ちゃえば
いい
So my guess would be :
感じなくちやえばいい
Why is there a 'なっ' before 'ちやえば'?
As you noticed, if that were the 感じる in negative te-form, it would be 感じなくて as opposed to 感じなくな. That's why in reality it's 感じる + なくなる in te-form. Note that なくなる is the adverbial form of ない + なる.
感じる ---> 感じ
なくなる ---> なくなって
~てしまえば ---> ~ ちゃえば
いい
