Translating 「こんなばかな私をどうして愛してくれるの？」


Someone I know PM'd me this and I honestly don't know what it means.

> こんなばかな私をどうして愛してくれるの？

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is roughly:

> Konna baka na watashi o doushite ai shite kureru no?

And for the individual words I've got

  * Konna - this is 
  * Baka - stupid 
  * Watashi o - I 
  * Ai - Love 

But from that, I don't know how it transforms into an actual sentence or at
least its meaning. Thanks a bunch.




> **Q. Can someone translate and explain this to me?  
>  「こんなばかな私をどうして愛してくれるの？」**

**A.** First I'll break it down and then give what _may_ be an explanation for
the sentence.

  * こんな - this kind of
  * ばかな - idiot, stupid 
    * **こんなばかな** - this kind of stupid
  * 私 - me 
    * **こんなばかな私** - this kind of stupid person (literally "me")
  * を - particle that marks the object of the sentence
  * どうして - why
  * 愛して - gerund form of 愛する (to love)
  * くれる - to give; to let one have; to do for one; to be given 
    * **愛してくれる** - (give) love (to) me, i.e., love me
  * の - particle の used at the end of a sentence when one is seeking for an explanation for something

Thus, the sentence holds the following meaning:

**こんなばかな私をどうして愛してくれるの？  
Why do you love this kind of stupid person?** (referring to themself)  
or more loosely translated: **How can you love a person as stupid as me?**

The author of the sentence may be seeking confirmation of the recipient's
love, but that's just a conjecture. The author could be seeking a range of
different reactions with this. Only the author (and possibly the recipient,
and those familiar with the situation) would know this based on the context
and their relationship.

