72921
> そうか  
>  そういや  
>  [ペッパー]{おまえ}は  
>  昔のユトを  
>  なにひとつ  
>  思い出せねえん  
>  だったっけ。

So the first part, そうかそういや is preamble, "Is that so? come to think of it..."
ペッパー is the name of the protagonist who's being addressed. But then I have
trouble.

昔のユト: the Ute people from the old days? ユト, so far as I can see, is only used
to refer to the Native American Ute tribe, which fits the context because this
is a Western.

So I'm assuming they are the object of the next phrase: ないひとつ思い出せねえんだったっけ

But I can't parse this. 思い出せねえんだったっけ is obviously 思い出せる, to recall, but I
can't understand this conjugation. The だったっけ ending is past tense copula plus
the -ke particle to indicate the _speaker_ is trying to remember something?

It's also confusing because so far I haven't seen any reason to think they
_are_ talking about the Ute tribe. The conversation thus far ran something
like:

> "So, Pepper, I got a message from the State Police. Some guy saw a $10,000
> bounty up near Diamond Hill. It's Wild Job, a survivor from the Cassidy
> Gang."
>
> "The Cassidy gang...?"
>
> 「そうだ  
>  ぺッパー  
>  郡警察から連絡でな  
>  ダイヤモンド・ヒルのあたりで１万ドルの首を見た奴がいる。  
>  ワイルド・ジョブって奴だよ  
>  キャシディ一味の生き残りだ。」
>
> 「キャシディ一味...?」

And no mention of "Ute"...

Here's a picture, so you can see the katakana for yourselves: ![a panel from a
manga](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q1aOk.jpg)

Having skimmed ahead, I'm now actually pretty sure it's actually a person's
name, though what "Yuto" is supposed to be in a Western setting I've no
idea...
CC BY-SA 4.0
2019-11-05T15:04:36.043
72920
2019-11-05T23:42:43.293
2020-06-17T08:18:27.500
-1
25518
question
grammar syntax sentence
I can't quite parse this sentence about not remembering something
そうか is "Is that so" or "I see". そういや is colloquialism for そういえば ("That reminds
me", "Speaking of that"). 昔のユト is a typo for 昔のコト ("things in the past"),
ないひとつ is another typo for 何ひとつ ("(not) at all", "(not) a thing").

As for 思い出せねえんだったっけ, it's colloquialism for 思い出せないのだったっけ. This った is something
called a modal-ta.

  * 思い出す to recall
  * 思い出せる can recall
  * 思い出せない cannot recall
  * 思い出せねえ cannot recall ([ai-to-ee contraction](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18454/5010))
  * 思い出せねえんだ it's that you cannot recall ([explanatory-の](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/5398/5010))
  * 思い出せねえんだった (I recalled) it's that you cannot recall ([た for recall/discovery](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/40733/5010))
  * 思い出せねえんだったっけ (I recalled) it's that you cannot recall, right? ([っけ for confirmation](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/1878/5010))

So the whole sentence translates to "Oh, that reminds me, you remember nothing
about your past, huh?".

(BTW, it's usually best to paste the original image before someone asks...)
CC BY-SA 4.0
2019-11-05T23:37:02.210
72921
2019-11-05T23:42:43.293
2019-11-05T23:42:43.293
5010
5010
72920
answer