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This is a line from a game that I'm attempting to take apart and understand. A
man has committed a murder, and is panic-thinking he doesn't want to be caught
for it. He thinks/says out loud this sentence:

> 誰か ... 誰かが **やったこと** に **するんだ** ... ！

I'm guessing this is essentially, "Someone ... someone [else?] will have done
this," as in, he's going to pin the crime on another person.

I'd like to make sure that I'm understanding 「やったこと」 and 「するんだ」 correctly. The
first, breaking down やった and こと would probably be something like, "thing that
was done." But the second is probably me not quite clicking with the ~んだ
ending - is that him answering his own thoughts? Or is it a tense of some
kind? I understand it's meant to be explanatory, but it's not until after this
that he decides he'll accuse a man he saw, so I would have guessed the tense
would appear there instead.

In case it has to do with him answering himself, for context, the lines before
this one are:

> ... くそっ！なんでオレがこんな目に ....
>
> ... つかまりたくねえ ... こんなことで ....

Thanks!
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grammar conjugations video-games
Understanding 「やったこと」 and 「〜んだ」。
> > 誰か ... 誰かがやったことにするんだ ... ！
>
> I'm guessing this is essentially, "Someone ... someone [else?] will have
> done this," as in, he's going to pin the crime on another person.

Yes, that's right. Literally it translates as "I will (んだ) make this into
something (ことにする) that someone else (だれかが) did (やった)".

> I'd like to make sure that I'm understanding 「やったこと」 and 「するんだ」 correctly.

Here the する is part of にする, it means to make something into something. The んだ
is like a "that's what I'll do" sort of thing, it is his revelation to himself
as it were.
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