A：「おいしかったね、あの店。また行こうね。」
B: 「あ！店にけいたい電話おいてきてしまったからとりにもどらないと。」
I don't really understand the function or meaning of ~きて here. Could someone help me parse this part grammatically? Why おいてきてしまった instead of おいてしまった?
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This ~きて means ~来て (to come)
おいてきて（置いて来て) literally means (I put and came here)
Putting it together:
店にけいたい電話おいてきてしまった I left my phone at the store (lit. I put my phone at the store and came here unintentionally)
Japanese often indicates the motion following the verb:
ペンを買ってくる - to buy and bring a pen here
トイレに行ってくる - to go to the toilet and come back
This might help you understand.
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Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was being used in a literal physical sense or time/change based sense. I guess I was overthinking it. The linked article helps a lot! Sep 5, 2019 at 5:19