Preparing for a fight in Osaka (dialectal んやったなぁ)


Subject: ironic story; place: Osaka; time: pre-mordern; situation: a boy is
threatened with a sword-fight. More threatened than really called for a duel,
so he has time.

The hero of the story says to himself:

> こんな事になるんやったら何か得物を持って来るんやったなぁ。

And starts to search through his belongings for something to use as a weapon.

* * *

The situation is clear and the meaning is easy to deduce or at least I can
imagine what I would say in such a situation...

...except for the latter んやったなぁ. Either it leads to the next scene (searching
the belongings):

> 1 Gee, things turned bad... I wonder do I have anything for a weapon...

or is just a statement of resignation:

> 2 Now that things turned that way, I should have brought some weapon with
> me...

that can be said before running away (as well as before searching for a
weapon).

How shall I interpret 持って来るんやったなぁ here (as 1 or 2 or maybe something else)?




> ~のだった

means "should have", and んやった is just a colloquial dialectal form of that. So
pretty much your number 2.




> ~のだった

means "should have", and んやった is just a colloquial dialectal form of that. So
pretty much your number 2.

