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everybody! In these days I'm practing my japanese studying some anime's
dialogues, in particular Little Witch Academia's. In general, it's pretty
simple but I found two sentences in the first episode that for me are not
clear at all, and so I hope you can help me.

The first sentence is this:

> "ていうか、夢以上の宿命?".

The complete sentence is:"六才の時にシャイニィシャリオの魔法ショーをみてから,魔女になるのが夢だった！ていうか、夢以上の宿命?"

The first part is clear: "After I saw a magical show of Shiny Chariot when I
was six years old, be a witch became my dream!".

ていうか = In other words; or better say, etc: also this is clear.

Is "夢以上の宿命?" that bothers me: what does it mean? Maybe something like "Or
perhaps I should say that is my destiny?" ?

The second sentence is as follows:

> "近頃学校が経営難で、魔女家系でなくても入れないとやっていけないとか .

I think that is something like "Since the school is in financial difficulties,
it seems that can't keep going without accepting no witch-blood girls", but I
can't figure out what is that "でなくても"... What is it? Also in this case, I hope
in your support.

Thank you for attention and thank you in advance to all those who will help
me. ^__^
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grammar expressions
夢以上の宿命 and -でなくても: what they mean?
I just watched this episode too, haha! Here is what I think:

1) I would translate 夢以上の宿命? as something like "Or more than a dream...
destiny?"

2) I think there's like 1,000 negatives in this sentence. でなく is an inflection
of だ, basically meaning ない. So 魔女家系 meaning "witch lineage," 魔女家系でなくても means
"not having witch lineage." So 魔女家系でなくても入れない means "not letting in those
without witch lineage". Then やっていけない meaning "wrong/no good/of no use," so
putting the whole thing together

魔女家系でなくても入れないとやっていけない

means basically "they can't not let in people without witch lineage" (or, more
gracefully) "they have to let in people without witch lineage".
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> ていうか、夢以上の宿命?

This probably is "Or rather, it's more than (just) a dream, (it's my) destiny
(to be a witch)." I'm only 80% certain without further contexts.

> 近頃学校が経営難で、魔女家系でなくても入れないとやっていけないとか。

I would translate it rather literally as "I heard the school is in financial
difficulties, and it can't keep going if it doesn't accept girls even though
they are not witch-blooded."

  * ～で(は)ない: "is not ～"
  * ～で(は)なくても: = ～じゃなくても. "even though _< omitted subject>_ is not ～"
  * 魔女家系でなくても: "even though _< omitted subject>_ is not witch-blooded"
  * 入れる【いれる】: "to accept students" in this context
  * やっていく: "to make a living", "to keep going", etc.
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