Need help with a sentence

[Damicci]

あなたをよく知らなかったし、Didn't know you well
友達になれるか分からなかったので、become friends from myself ??????
嘘の名前を言いました said fake name

I understand the first part and the last part but the second part I am not understanding the structure. "なれるか分からなかった" this is the part I can't seem to decipher the exact reasons why the conjugation of naru(to become)




"I didn't know you well and didn't know if I could become friends thats why I said a phony name" Thats what she said it means in english but i want to understand why the structure of the sentence is like that and she is not a good teacher, just not her thing. :sorry:

[cacawate]

I didn't know you that well and wasn't sure if we'd become friends, so I gave you a fake name.

Think of it as 'Can we become friends?', (_that_) I didn't know

In English, that's a stretch, so we just translate it to 'don't know if...' '〜かわからない'

(Hopefully you understand)

Glenn!

[Damicci]

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH

分かる　分　This kanji threw me for a loop didn't know it could be used as wakaru.
Thanks a ton now that makes total sense.

[GaijinPunch]

Been hitting the bars over there? :)

[Damicci]

:okashii:
hush you......

this was one of my e-pals but she gave her number to call her and never left a name so i call her and she tells me "a" name then i find out she was testing our friendship and decided i was worth keeping as a friend. japanese chics are mean :okashii: