What does 飼っとっと mean?


For example: ポニーを一応飼っとっとです.

The speaker is from Kumamoto. I'm guessing its a dialect, but struggling to
understand the meaning.




## Resources

I looked on the following two websites that provided an overview of some
Kumamoto dialect vocabulary and searched for the construction in your
sentence.

  * [Narit (`Ctrl+F` とっと)](http://www10.plala.or.jp/narit/kmt/kmt_ben1.html)
  * [Kumamoto Kokufu (`Ctrl+F` トット)](http://www.kumamotokokufu-h.ed.jp/kumamoto/hougen/k_h-1ran.html)

## Meaning of 「とっと」

The definition of とっと and some of the sentences and their standard Japanese
(標準語{ひょうじゅんご}) equivalents I found on the sites:

_Definition of トット（標準語：～ているの）_

> アットット，イットット，ウットット
>
> 会っているの，行っているの，売っているの

_Definition of ダランゴツ（標準語：話にならない、ばかげている）_

> ナアンバ **言うとっと** かダランゴツ
>
> 何を **言ってるの** 話にならない

_Definition of ナシテ（標準語：なぜ、どうして）_

> ナシテ **オゴットット** ナ？
>
> なぜ **怒っているの** ？

## Translating your original sentence

From the definition and usage above, it's clear that「飼っとっとです」is「飼っているのです」in
standard Japanese and the meaning would be "I currently own (a pony)."

However, I couldn't really make a lot of sense of the grammar of the sentence.
For one, you would expect the particle「を」for owning a pet,
e.g.「犬・猫・ハムスターを飼っています」. Next,「一応」could mean "just in case" or "for once" or
even "for now" depending on the context. Not to say that it doesn't make sense
in this sentence, but I suspect the person may have said「一頭{いっとう}」instead,
because「頭」is the counter for a lot of animals, although one could argue that
for a smaller animal like a pony, the counter「匹{ひき}」would be more appropriate.

If you had a link to the original dialogue, I could have another go at the
transcription and translation.




## Resources

I looked on the following two websites that provided an overview of some
Kumamoto dialect vocabulary and searched for the construction in your
sentence.

  * [Narit (`Ctrl+F` とっと)](http://www10.plala.or.jp/narit/kmt/kmt_ben1.html)
  * [Kumamoto Kokufu (`Ctrl+F` トット)](http://www.kumamotokokufu-h.ed.jp/kumamoto/hougen/k_h-1ran.html)

## Meaning of 「とっと」

The definition of とっと and some of the sentences and their standard Japanese
(標準語{ひょうじゅんご}) equivalents I found on the sites:

_Definition of トット（標準語：～ているの）_

> アットット，イットット，ウットット
>
> 会っているの，行っているの，売っているの

_Definition of ダランゴツ（標準語：話にならない、ばかげている）_

> ナアンバ **言うとっと** かダランゴツ
>
> 何を **言ってるの** 話にならない

_Definition of ナシテ（標準語：なぜ、どうして）_

> ナシテ **オゴットット** ナ？
>
> なぜ **怒っているの** ？

## Translating your original sentence

From the definition and usage above, it's clear that「飼っとっとです」is「飼っているのです」in
standard Japanese and the meaning would be "I currently own (a pony)."

However, I couldn't really make a lot of sense of the grammar of the sentence.
For one, you would expect the particle「を」for owning a pet,
e.g.「犬・猫・ハムスターを飼っています」. Next,「一応」could mean "just in case" or "for once" or
even "for now" depending on the context. Not to say that it doesn't make sense
in this sentence, but I suspect the person may have said「一頭{いっとう}」instead,
because「頭」is the counter for a lot of animals, although one could argue that
for a smaller animal like a pony, the counter「匹{ひき}」would be more appropriate.

If you had a link to the original dialogue, I could have another go at the
transcription and translation.

