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Provisions, conditions, and hypotheses

Authored by: Naomi H. McGloin , Mutsuko Endo Hudson , Fumiko Nazikian , Tomomi Kakegawa

Modern Japanese Grammar

Print publication date:  October  2013
Online publication date:  March  2017

Print ISBN: 9780415571999
eBook ISBN: 9780203856628
Adobe ISBN: 9781135151393

10.4324/9780203856628.ch55

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Abstract

In open conditions, where conditions may or may not be fulfilled, there are basically four conditionals in Japanese, tara, nara, ba and to. All of these express the idea of ‘if,’ as in the following.

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