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Don't underestimate your mother with 甘く見る

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Meimi’s mother stops by Meimi’s room with a couple of movie tickets. She says she and Meimi’s father have already seen the movie, so she’s offering them to Meimi. She says the movie is very romantic, and suggests Meimi has someone she’d want to see it with.

芽美(めいみ):
「マ… ママ()って…」
“Mom, you knew...?”
ママ:
「ママを(あま)()ないことね」
Don't underestimate Mom.”

Vocabulary

()
to know
  1. ()
  2. ()って (te-form)

Grammar

(あま)()
Idiom meaning to underestimate
〜ない
Negative form (don't do)
〜こと
Nominalizer turning the verb phrase into a noun