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Structure
- Verb[ て ] + Action/Event
Verb[て] conjugations
[This version of て is used to express a sequence of events]
[Verb[て] + B is often used with action verbs to express that actions have been taken in order. The verb in て-form happens first, and then the action/event (B)]
If you want to add that to “Readings”, it would be “Describing Two Activities” on page 152 of Genki I 2nd edition
@ferbeb Thank you! I have updated the Readings section and added this grammar point to the Genki I Path. Cheers!
Hi,
I have a question about this example sentence.
Would
きのうのあさはおきてなにをしたんですか
mean the same or is it either wrong or something different?
Thanks in advance
I would say it does. It changes from
" Yesterday (all day, any time during that day), after you woke up in the morning what did you do?" to " Yesterday morning (only this time, this is the topic, I don’t care about afternoon or evening, yesterday morning), what did you do after waking up? "
This is how I would interpret the difference
Thanks, that makes sense.
「うちに帰って昼寝をしたい。」（帰る）
‘I want to go home and take a nap.’
Should it be I want to return home?
What’s the difference between the lesson here and this earlier lesson?
At first glance, the earlier lesson details only shows sentences with a comma after て but when you look in the example sentences, it isn’t always the case.
I’m very new to this and I had the same question and came here to see if there was an answer. I saw there was no answer so I looked at the examples again. The version in lesson 5 seems to focus on how you add the conjunction particle to the verb. All of the examples are verb → verb + te. The version in lesson 7 seems to be focusing on how that functions by itself in a sentence.
I don’t know why they separated those ideas or put a couple of other ways the te particle functions with verbs before it, but I think that’s the difference.
If anyone else wants to clarify, expand, or explain, would love an answer.