たとえば - Grammar Discussion

Grammar Points
#1

for example

Structure

  • たとえば + Phrase

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#2

例えば、「英語が好きですか。」と聞いてみたら？
For example, why don’t you ask ‘Do you like English?’

This is the first time I have seen [Verb ~たら] used at the end of a sentence.
So I read と聞いてみたら as “If/when you try to ask”.

Is there something I am missing here?

#3

This is covered in the たらどう grammar point. You can (casually) make suggestions without spelling out the part after the conditional.

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#4

@nekoyama Thank you for that clarification! At least it seems like a very logical combination, with the hypothetical condition [~たら] is modifying どう “In which way/manner?”. To literally express “what if you do… (this)?”

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