Comments on: ~tara – When something happened

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:30:01 +0000

To change tai to the ta for, it becomes “takattara”, so the sentence would be:

Konban dekaketakattara, heya wo souji shinakereba ikenai.

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:52:42 +0000

What about if you want to say: if you want to go out tonight, you have you clean your room first? (so how do you change the tai form to ta form?)

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:34:46 +0000

Nanda: that’s correct. It actually comes from the perfective form (ta form). So a negative predicate is:
Nenakattara, kibun ga waruku narimasu.
When I don’t sleep, I begin to feel sick.

And a noun (or an adjectival noun) would be:
Hima dattara, sanpou shimasu.
If I’m free, I will go for a walk.

So basically, take the -ta form and add “ra”

By: nanda

nanda — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:56:43 +0000

well… i guess i want to share something abt the ~tara form
i think the ‘~tara’ and form came fron the ‘~te’ form. if someone knows how 2 form the ‘~te’ of the plain form, i guess it’s an advantage too.
4 example:
naru –> natte –> nattara
yomu –> yonde –> yondara
hope this helps. thankz 4 this nice blog

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:50:08 +0000

What do you mean by “arerigu”

By: aya

aya — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:26:25 +0000

watashi wa, ebi o tabettara, kao ga akaku narimashita. ebi no arerigu kara desu.

ne, did i say that correctly?

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:47:45 +0000

You are always welcome, a-ko

By: a_ko

a_ko — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:41:30 +0000

ah i see.
thank you
it makes that a little more clearer :]
i would have never known that.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:54:27 +0000

Hi a-ko, you cannot use “toki (one word)” for the above example because “6ji ni naru” is not DOING something but to tell you that something will happen when it reaches certain time. “Toki” is used to express something that you are DOING. For example :

Basu o noru toki ni, nemutaku narimasu. (When I am taking a bus, I’ll feel sleepy)

Hope this help. Thanks

By: a_ko

a_ko — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:17:39 +0000

so i have a question about “tara”
is it like “when”
and could you use “to” or “toki” instead of “nattara”
hmm, i mean like this

“6 ji ni naru to(ki), tenku ga kuraku naru”

japanese seems to have so many variations on how to say the same thing
its confusing at times :0