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AnonymousFor the sentence せんせい の はず です, Are you saying ‘I expect he is a teacher’ or ‘He expects he is a teacher’? If you are saying ‘I expect’, then how do you say ‘He expects’?
Also, when using たら with a verb in ta-form, it translates to ‘If..’, so たべたら would mean ‘if you eat.’ But using the ta-form (which is past tense) with たら would make it a present tense ‘If’, so how would you use たら with a ta-form verb and having it be past tense? And how would you make the たら verb present negative and past negative? Is it the same when adding the -tai want form to たら?
Sorry for all the questions, I just don’t quite understand using たら as past. Thanks for all of your help in advance! :)Since you have also asked other questions regarding conditionals, I will just leave this link here, so you can actually try to understand it on your own.
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/conditionals
Tae Kim covers much more than TextFugu, and IMO explains it better with example sentences and so on.For the はず question, it’s all in the context.
Don’t think of たら as past tense. Just think of it as “if”, the tense comes with the last verb.
雨が降ったら、野球をしません。 – If it rains, I won’t play baseball.
雨が降ったら、野球をしませんでした。 – When it rained, I didn’t play baseball.
雨が降らなかったら、野球をします。 – If it doesn’t rain, I’ll play baseball.
雨が降らなかったら、野球をしました。 – When it didn’t rain, I played baseball.I think.
Negative – ないー＞なかったら
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AnonymousI think I kind of get it now. Thanks for the help everyone!
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