おかげじゃ よかったのう

[Pavel Bond]

Subtitles for 一寸法師:
おばあさま：かみさまの　おかげじゃ　よかったのう・・・
What I listen:
かみさまの　おかげじゃに よかったのう・・・
Is it possible to say おかげじゃに instead of おかげじゃ?

 

[SoLaTiDoberman]

I think it's possible when I regard it as an old dialect spoken by elderly people.
に＝since, as, because

神様のおかげじゃに、よかったのう
＝神様のおかげじゃから、よかったのう
＝神様のおかげだから、よかったね

 

[Flaminius]

It's not an old dialect but a fictitious language that has enough semblance of rusticity and antiquity to sound "dialectie". It, first and foremost, need to be understood by the modern audience, and that means it cannot depart so much from the ordinary Modern Japanese.

おかげじゃに does not make much sense without stretching the grammar. Before stepping into this direction, I find it wise to consider more moderate possibilities. E.g., was it not intended to be じゃな?

 

[Pavel Bond]

SoLaTiDoberman, Flaminius, thanks!
As far as I can listen it out it is に, not な.

 

[Flaminius]

Or, maybe じゃね? Never have I seen じゃに elsewhere. Plus, it sounds eerily close to だに (nearly equal to だよ in the Standard Language) from the Nagoya accent. An urban dialect is typically not the source of fictitious dialectie language.

 

[Pavel Bond]

Or, maybe じゃね? Never have I seen じゃに elsewhere. Plus, it sounds eerily close to だに (nearly equal to だよ in the Standard Language) from the Nagoya accent. An urban dialect is typically not the source of fictitious dialectie language.

I've sent you the link in a private message.

 

[Flaminius]

It's じゃ with よかった immediately following. The pitch level of the utterance of おかげじゃ rises on until a sudden drop at か. With this, phonetically, おかげじゃよ appears to constitute a single constituent of the text. Is it possible that you analyze twice? Once, phonetics motivates carving out a chunk おかげじゃj, and twice, grammar expects joかったのう. It's probably the consciousness of じゃj that gives rise to a mirage of に.

 

[Pavel Bond]

Oh, thanks, after your explanation it really begins to sound as おかげじゃj-joかったのう!
Very like hocus-pocus))