What's the meaning of "嵌めたな。"


**A** : I fitted it.

**B** : You set me up.

I thought it was **A** , but some [video](https://youtu.be/1F946iV2O9g?t=2910)
says it's **B** , so which one is it?




Japanese and English are very different in how they communicate information. A
stand alone sentence in English can frequently be understood (even if only
imperfectly) without any further context. Japanese is quite different. Just a
simple verb alone is an entire sentence.

> 見たな

What does this mean? It could mean: "I saw you", "you saw me", "he saw me",
"they saw us", etc. etc. In a different context perhaps: "You saw the
headline". Given the right context, any of these meanings could be made
obvious.

In English, this effect is harder to convey. But, consider the phrase "family
jewels". What does it mean? Am I referring to someone's testicles or a
grandmother's priceless diamond necklace. Without context, there's no way to
know.

The Japanese verb はめる has a wide range of possible meanings (as per the Jisho
link I provided in the comments). はめた is just the past tense of this verb.
With はめたな, な is just a
[particle](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/370/4875) whose range of
meaning is beyond the scope of this answer, but it adds a bit of color to the
expression (English doesn't have a real equivalent to this, "isn't it?" barely
scratches the possibilities).

So, what you have here is a situation like the verb 見た. Only はめる has a much
broader range of possibilities of meanings from "to put on" to "ensnare" to
(according to Jisho) "sexual intercourse", which for me was a revelation, but
then given the right context might be easily enough construed (I'm going to
guess that it is rather crude).

I'm not sure how useful the youtube video you linked to is for learning
Japanese. While certainly はめたな can mean "you set me up!", how likely is this
something that you're going to say in Japanese (it would be extremely
confrontational if you did). Perhaps you might hear it in an anime. But more
likely, you're going to use this verb to say things like, てぶくろをはめた (I put on
my gloves). I can imagine a detective movie in which Sherlock quips, "はめたな"
("hmmm, she'd put on her gloves") and thus concludes that the suspicious
landlord is actually innocent.

The youtube video is an odd collection of random expressions with a broad
range of formality that are a bit incongruous next to each other. If you cut
an pasted some together in a creative way to make a story, it could probably
be quite amusing. But, if you walked into a room and just announced
最低なやつ！はめたな, folk would probably just break out into laughter (or just mutter
to themselves 変な外人だな).

Anyhow, there are lots of great places to learn and study Japanese online (and
on youtube even). [Some are kind of hilarious](https://youtu.be/9jubQt8h8_Y).
But generally these sorts of lists are just not really all that helpful as you
might think they are.




Japanese and English are very different in how they communicate information. A
stand alone sentence in English can frequently be understood (even if only
imperfectly) without any further context. Japanese is quite different. Just a
simple verb alone is an entire sentence.

> 見たな

What does this mean? It could mean: "I saw you", "you saw me", "he saw me",
"they saw us", etc. etc. In a different context perhaps: "You saw the
headline". Given the right context, any of these meanings could be made
obvious.

In English, this effect is harder to convey. But, consider the phrase "family
jewels". What does it mean? Am I referring to someone's testicles or a
grandmother's priceless diamond necklace. Without context, there's no way to
know.

The Japanese verb はめる has a wide range of possible meanings (as per the Jisho
link I provided in the comments). はめた is just the past tense of this verb.
With はめたな, な is just a
[particle](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/370/4875) whose range of
meaning is beyond the scope of this answer, but it adds a bit of color to the
expression (English doesn't have a real equivalent to this, "isn't it?" barely
scratches the possibilities).

So, what you have here is a situation like the verb 見た. Only はめる has a much
broader range of possibilities of meanings from "to put on" to "ensnare" to
(according to Jisho) "sexual intercourse", which for me was a revelation, but
then given the right context might be easily enough construed (I'm going to
guess that it is rather crude).

I'm not sure how useful the youtube video you linked to is for learning
Japanese. While certainly はめたな can mean "you set me up!", how likely is this
something that you're going to say in Japanese (it would be extremely
confrontational if you did). Perhaps you might hear it in an anime. But more
likely, you're going to use this verb to say things like, てぶくろをはめた (I put on
my gloves). I can imagine a detective movie in which Sherlock quips, "はめたな"
("hmmm, she'd put on her gloves") and thus concludes that the suspicious
landlord is actually innocent.

The youtube video is an odd collection of random expressions with a broad
range of formality that are a bit incongruous next to each other. If you cut
an pasted some together in a creative way to make a story, it could probably
be quite amusing. But, if you walked into a room and just announced
最低なやつ！はめたな, folk would probably just break out into laughter (or just mutter
to themselves 変な外人だな).

Anyhow, there are lots of great places to learn and study Japanese online (and
on youtube even). [Some are kind of hilarious](https://youtu.be/9jubQt8h8_Y).
But generally these sorts of lists are just not really all that helpful as you
might think they are.

