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I am reading 海街 Diary, and I have come across this dialogue:

> 朝ゴハン一緒できなくなっちゃって。

I know it means "We can't have breakfast together".

I understand (vaguely) the meaning of なっちゃって, i.e. it indicates one having to
do something unwillingly.

I understand that 一緒で means together.

I don't understand what that きなく is doing in the middle.
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Deconstruction of "一緒できなくなっちゃって"
> 朝ゴハン一緒できなくなっちゃって。

This looks pretty informal. The で you are seeing is not a particle, but the
start of the verb できる.

できる (to be able to do) -> できない (to be unable to do). The next verb is なる (to
become) so we need to change the previous part to できなく to give できなくなる (become
unable to do).

Then we have なる -> なっちゃって. This is a contraction of なってしまって. The verb しまう adds
a sense of regret. Ending with て kind of softens the sentence. There's an
implied ending e.g. "..and I'm really sorry about it". So putting it all
together we get.

> Unfortunately, we can't have breakfast together any more.
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