I was playing a game (Yu-Gi-Oh) until I found this:

> **これといった** 用があって来た **わけじゃない**.

This was in the very beginning of the game, when someone woke me up. I'm not
sure what 「これといった」 and 「わけじゃない」 mean. May someone help me, explaining the
sentence? Thank you very much!
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Understanding これといった〜ない
This would have been a much better question had you shown your own translation
attempt. The sentence indeed contains a couple of very useful words and
phrases.

> 「これといった[用]{よう}があって[来]{き}たわけじゃ **ない** 。」

「これといった」 = 「これと[言]{い}った」 ≠ 「これと[行]{い}った」

As a way to understand this phrase, try "rewriting" it in your head to
『これ！』と言った, which would **_roughly_** mean **"saying** **'This is it!'"**.

Since 「これといった」 is always used in conjunction with a **_negative_** expression
containing 「 **ない** 」, the basic idea of a phrase/sentence containing 「これといった」
would automatically be something like **_"there is nothing one could point
one's finger and say 'This is it!'_**

A wordy explanation, I know, but you will keep encountering this quotative 「と」
for as long as you study Japanese. Informally, it is 「って」 (and I am sure you
keep hearing that).

Moving on to 「 **～～わけじゃない** 」, it means " **It is not the case that ~~** " ,
"I do not mean to ~~"

「これという用があって来たわけじゃない。」, therefore, means:

> "It is not that I came here for any particular (or 'important') errand."
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