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total Japanese noob here. Recently I got the manga しろくまカフェ and I started
working through it. Within the first few sentences I'm stumped:

> でも寝てばっかりいる太っちゃう〜

I got the gist of the sentence "Just sleep here and I will get fat", but I
don't understand a few parts and I don't think my translation is very good. I
don't really understand the combination of いる(to exist) and と(my understanding
of と was with or and only with nouns). Additionally, I've never seen the っちゃう
ending on the verb 太る(to get fat) before. Why wouldn't it just be, well, 太る?
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と usage with いる and the っちゃう ending on a verb
> でも寝てばっかりいる **と** 太っちゃう〜

From your description, I'm guessing there's a と here?

If that's the case, と is used to mean that the following clause is the result
of the clause before it. AとB means that, If A happens, B occurs. So here, it
means that " **If** I just lay around all day, I'll get fat".

> 寝てばっかりいる

This comes from the structure て-form verb + ば（っ）かり+いる. If you read grammar
about ばかり,they'll tell you that this is quite a common way to use this
grammar. It means that you are doing an action "all the time" or "only doing".

> 太っちゃう

This is the casual form of Verb + てしまう. It means to do something
unintentionally. It has other meanings as well, such as causing an unintended
effect, or doing something to completion. 太ってしまう would mean "to get fat", but
implies that this is unintentional or an unwanted effect. You don't want to
get fat, but you got fat.

I hope this helps! It seems like you're missing a lot of grammar points simply
because you haven't gotten far enough yet. I think you should maybe read a bit
more on grammar so you don't get as confused.
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