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Hello!
Its me again. 😀 I’m working on Genki 2 Chapter 18 still and working on と (Genki is teaching this to mean: whenever or cause and effect). I have one quick question:
In Genki, it says, “The event described by the second clause must follow the event described in the first half of the sentence. Thus it is wrong to say: 私はその人と話すとカフェに行きます”
I’m not sure what Genki is trying to tell me here. Why can’t we use the sentence: 私はその人と話すとカフェに行きます?
Thank you in advance! 😀
Is there a text book like this
Sorry, I’m not sure how to explain that well. Genki has words like college/university, telephone, newspaper, notebook, etc, in the earlier parts of the book. I’m looking for a book that explains words part of sentences like これ, それ, そこ, どうも, どうして, earlier in the book and less on other words before teaching the other words later in the book. A book faster paced than genki.
「昨日、俺が性触者に対して使われたものでもある。」
context: the characters are in a forest and identiy a weapon (もの in the above sentence) that was used in a scuffle yesterday. 性触者 is jargon that basically just means enemy in the context of the story.
What is throwing me off is the use of 俺が in this passive construction. に対して idefnities 性触者 the recepient of some action.. but because 使われたis passive that seems to suggest that 俺 is NOT the doer of said action… and yet 俺 is indeed the subject of this sentence.
I’m totally confused to be honest..
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