松阪牛 / 考えないとな / わけです

Hi,


1.
山本： 僕は松阪牛、贈った。
本田: へ～、松阪牛。いいなぁ。僕のところにはそんあ ﾈの届かなかった。
山本： お前のところに贈るかよ。
本田: そうか。 ・・・・・

My guess is:
山本： I sent them Matsusaka steak. [Talking about gifts for people at work.]
本田: Hey, Matsusaka steak! Nice. I didn't receive anything like that.
山本： Shall I send you some?
本田: ???

a) Does ところ in 僕のところ and お前のところ mean the place where the person lives?

b) What is the grammar connecting そんな + の + 届かなかった?

c) Who is the subject of 贈る in お前のところに贈るかよ? Is this talking about a future event? A habitual event?

d) What is the nuance of そうか? Is it answering one question with another question?


2. そろそろ、考えないとな。

Could this mean "Don't think about it for too long?" If な is expressing "don't", then what is the purpose of と?


3. ところでペレズさんは、日本の会社で日本人と毎日仕事 をしてらっしゃるわけですけど、何か悩みとか困ったこ とありませんか？

(Ms Perez is being interviewed, and this is the first sentence in the conversation.)

My translation: "So, Ms Perez, you work every day in a Japanese company with Japanese people, but I suppose you encounter some problems and difficulties?"

How should わけです be interpreted here? Is it like "the fact is" or "the situation is"?


4. The context is that the speaker has been complaining about having to stay late at work:

時々頑張って言うんですけどね。

I can't make much sense of this. I don't know who is the subject of 言う, or how it connects with 頑張って (given, I assume, that って is not quoting here).

1) a)
Yes.

b)
の is a pronoun and the particle は is omitted after の.

c)
Unlike 贈るよ, 贈るかよ expresses a strong negative; 絶対贈らないよ, 贈るわけがないよ.

d)
I see.

2)
考えないといけないな.
な expresses the speaker's self-confirmation.

3)
Yes, that's right.

4)
Isn't that 時々頑張ってって言うんですけどね。? Is so, the person who says 頑張って is his colleague(s) or superior(s).

Thank you.

1c) So, does this mean "I'm not going to send you any!"?

At WWWJDIC it says かよ is "sentence-ending particle expressing doubt". Would you say that definition is wrong, or is it somehow compatible with your "expresses a strong negative"?

2) So it means "I must give it some thought soon"?

4) There is only one って, and there is also some audio for this dialogue where I can hear only one って, so it doesn't seem like a typo in the book...

1)
The subject could be "I", but I think that it would be more common to interprit "No one sends you..."

Yes, かよ can express the speaker's doubt, as in 本当かよ "Really?"
The meaning "strong negative" is from the usage of a rhetorical question.
お前のところに誰かが贈るか？ --> お前のところに誰も贈らない。

2)
I don't know the context exactly, but isn't it そろそろ、何を贈るか考えないといけないな?

4)
Then, 頑張って is an adverb which modifies 言う.

I sometimes have the courage to complain.

2. Yes, in the context "I must give it some thought soon" would mean "I must soon think about what present to give these people at work".