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I'm reading a manga and a man (Shusuke) and woman (Nozomi) are having a
conversation. It starts out with them talking about congratulating a mutual
friend (Sawada) on getting a job when Shusuke says:

(1)

> あーあいつのぞみちゃん狙いだからな

I believe it says "Ah— That guy (Sawada) is aiming for you, Nozomi-chan."
Since there are no particles, I'm just guessing.

Nozomi responds by saying Sawada told her she can make a reservation to the
restaurant any time she wants and then says:

(2)

> なんだったかな？ **ル** の **つく** お店

Which I've translated to "I wonder..." but I don't understand the rest of the
sentence because I don't know what **ル** means which, in turn, causes me to
not know what **つく** means. I'm guessing **つく** is a verb because when I look
it up on jisho.org, only verbs come up. Jisho.org doesn't turn anything up for
**ル／る** either.

So, I guess I actually have 2 questions, but I didn't want to separate them
because they flow together for contextual reasons.

  1. How to translate the first sentence since there are no particles

  2. What does **ルのつく** mean
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grammar translation meaning manga
How to translate a sentence that has no particles
> 「あー、あいつのぞみちゃん[狙]{ねら}いだからな。」

＝

> 「あー、あいつ **は** のぞみちゃん狙いだからな。」

This sentence means exactly what you guessed it did.

Note that there is no particle "omitted" between 「のぞみちゃん」 and 「狙い」.
「～～狙い」("aiming at ~~") is a very common phrase and it can be treated as one
word as far as grammar.

Regarding 「ルのつくお[店]{みせ}」, it means " ** _the shop/eatery whose name starts
with 「ル」_** ". 「つく」 is indeed a verb and it is written 「付く」 in kanji. = " **
_to be attached_** ", literally. Here, it means " ** _to be included (in the
spelling), particularly as the first kana_** ".

「ルのつくお店」 is, of course, a relative clause in which 「の」 means 「が」. There has
been a question about this 「の」 recently.
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