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A mother is scolding her daughter. The uncle (Tomozou) speaks first:

> 「おかあさん、お歳暮の広告見 **ちゃ** ダメ？」  
>  友蔵が頼んでもおかあさんは首を縦に振らなかった。  
>  「ダメですっ。」
>
> "Mother, is looking at year-end adverts not allowed?"  
>  Even though it was Tomozou who asked, mother didn't nod in agreement.  
>  "It's not allowed."  
>  (my TL attempt)

My main question is what is the meaning of ちゃ (in bold). If I were to say this
I would write something like お歳暮の広告を見るのはダメ。So my first thought was that ちゃ
could be a contraction of のは but that doesn't sound likely.

My secondary question (possibly related) is why does it say that the mother
**didn't** nod in agreement? I guess this is something to do with how you
answer negative questions in Japanese, but even then it seems like a strange
thing to say.
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grammar て-form particle-は negation contractions
Meaning of verb followed by ちゃ
ちゃ is a contraction of ては. 見ちゃダメ？ is the same as 見てはダメ？
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