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I've come across this phrase

> 今の一撃を素直に食らっておけば、楽に死ねたのにね

and I think it translates to something like: "if you had taken that attack
obediently, you would have died in peace", but I can't really understand that
死ねた: is it potential? a past of some sort? I can't really tell. And, moreover,
isn't ておけば the ておく form + conditional (the if clause), so it's probably wrong
my translation in the past. Or is it some kind of future in the past? in the
context she did just dodge an attack. I'm quite confused.
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potential-form past
what form 死ねたのに is?
> 「今{いま}の一撃{いちげき}を素直{すなお}に食{く}らっておけば、楽{らく}に死{し}ねたのにね。」

This sentence is in a **_conversational/informal_** form of the English "If ~~
had ~~, ~~ would/could have ~~". That is why the tenses might look loose to
someone who has studied with textbooks.

This person has **_not_** died yet.

「死ねた」 here means 「死ねたはずだった」、「死ねたであろう」 = " ** _would/could have died_** "

> "Had he received that one blow with no protection, he would have been able
> to die without pain."
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