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AnonymousOkay, often when I watch anime I hear some character say まってて. I assume this is a command for ‘wait,’ but I am only aware of the てform command, so in this case まって.
まってて is probably short for まっていて. But why like this? It must be the present progressive てform, but why not just the normal てform? And sometimes I see this when sentences are connected, although you normally use てform to connect sentences.
If anyone has the answer or a website, please tell me, thanks.
The way I interpret it is as follows;
まって is more like “stop” or “hold on” whereas
まってて is “wait (for a while)”
but maybe that’s just my interpretation.
I dont know what the context is like here, but I have heard something like that myself, could it be まってって; ‘wait’ with a casual quoting particle.
That could probably used in a few contexts. In the situation I heard that, the person being asked to wait is repeating it with the casual quoting particle (in anoyance and exasperation like まってってば without the ば).
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