Sentence ending ってことかな


> 僕の注意なんて、みんなの参考になるかな。一応いうけど、ヨーロッパの街角でスリにあわないように気をつけるってことかな。  
>  I wonder if my advice will be useful to everyone. I'll say it just in case.
> Take care not to meet pickpockets on the street corners of Europe.

I'm sure my translation is wrong because I haven't accounted for ってことかな, and
気をつける is not an imperative.

If I had to translate literally the best I could do is:

> I wonder if it's the case that you will take care not to meet ...

But that sounds ridiculous, and I'm not even sure if it's correct. How should
I understand ってことかな here?




ってこと is a common way of saying ということ in spoken Japanese, and in this case it
refers back to 僕の注意. What is my advice? My advice is X ということです。かな is used as a
softener, the way you'd use "I guess" or "maybe" or "probably" in English.

> My advice ... is you should probably watch out for pickpockets on the street
> corners of Europe.

Also, it doesn't really matter, but I read the スリにあう as 「スリに遭う」, with スリ
referring to the crime rather than the criminal, but it translates more
naturally as "watch out for/avoid pickpockets" in English.




ってこと is a common way of saying ということ in spoken Japanese, and in this case it
refers back to 僕の注意. What is my advice? My advice is X ということです。かな is used as a
softener, the way you'd use "I guess" or "maybe" or "probably" in English.

> My advice ... is you should probably watch out for pickpockets on the street
> corners of Europe.

Also, it doesn't really matter, but I read the スリにあう as 「スリに遭う」, with スリ
referring to the crime rather than the criminal, but it translates more
naturally as "watch out for/avoid pickpockets" in English.

