くどいよ / 驚くなかれ

[eeky]

Hi,

1. くどいよ君の質問は、もううるさい。

What is the grammatical connection between くどいよ and the rest of the sentence?

2. こんなことを言っても信じないだろうが、驚くなかれ。

The first part looks to me to mean something like "Even if I told you, you wouldn't believe me", but I can't understand what 驚くなかれ is saying. Maybe I have the whole purpose of the sentence wrong.

 

[lanthas]

1. Just 君の質問はくどいよ swapped around.
2. This very sentence is listed as the example for なかれ on jisho.org (maybe that's where you got it from?), the given translation is "You might not believe what I'm about to tell you, so don't be surprised".

 

[eeky]

2. Ah, OK, I have it with another translation which makes little sense in English.

 

[Toritoribe]

FYI, なかれ is the imperative form of the classical adjective なし（＝ ない）. 驚くなかれ is mostly used as an idiom in modern Japanese, and surprising information almost always follows it.
e.g.
驚くなかれ、あいつ彼女と結婚したらしいよ。