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Episode 5 N4

しあわせってshiawase tteなんだろうnandarou

BanG Dream! Ave Mujica 第5話 燈在學校自問「幸せってなんだろう」的場景

Phrase Breakdown

しあわせってshiawase tteなんだろうnandarou…」

What is happiness, anyway…

しあわ
Na-adjective / noun
「幸せ」= happiness; works as both noun and na-adjective (幸せな人 = a happy person). The blessing「お幸せに」(wishing you happiness) comes from it — and it's exactly that phrase that stings Tomori into this murmur.
って
Grammar: ~tte 🔑
The casual topic-defining particle = "the thing called ~ / speaking of ~", equal to formal「〜とは」/「〜というのは」.「幸せって」= "happiness, huh—". Perfect for defining or musing over a word: 愛ってなんだろう (what is love?).
なんだろう
Self-questioning 🔑
「なん (何)」+ だろう (conjecture = "I wonder"). Question word + だろう = a question asked to oneself, not to others. Compare:「なんですか」asks someone;「なんだろう」murmurs inward. Tomori, carrying everything alone, can only ask in a form no one will answer.
🎭
Tomori also appears in MyGO!!!!!
「一生」

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