〜と: Conditionals 2

Introduction

Welcome to another lesson about conditionals. I bet you're still buzzing with excitement from the last one... but if you're not, now's the time to get buzzing again. Sigh, what am I saying. That would only make sense if you were a bee or something. Ah!!! I can't stop using conditionals!!!

Using と to create a conditional statement

Structure

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  dictionary form

  not conjugated; the form of a word as you would find it in a dictionary (e.g. 食べる, おいしい).

  verb/negative, casual form

  the negative form of the casual/plain form, can also be called ない-form (e.g. {食|た}べる → {食|た}べない, {飲|の}む → {飲|の}まない).

  form verb/い-adjectiveとClause

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  な-adjective/NounだとClause

  Example:
  → 車くるまがないと何なにもできない。
  "If you don't have a car you can't do anything.”

In our previous lesson, we covered using the conditional form (～ば) of verbs and adjectives to create conditional statements. We also covered a wide variety of usages including hypotheticals, facts, and so-called "first conditionals" that express future events (e.g. "If it rains, I won't go").