Verb[て] - Grammar Discussion

Grammar Points
#41

Thank you very very much for your reply.

If I have learned this issue incorrectly or incompletely, I would like you to correct me. I know that “てみる” is “used in situations where you are not sure whether you will be successful in doing an action.” am I wrong? and in the example I gave, I used “てみる” because I thought “let’s see if I can remember” the kanji I learned a few days ago (but I wasn’t sure about whether I could remember them correctly) and took action.

If I have chosen a wrong grammatical rule in this regard, I would like to learn the correct one from you.

#42

Why do the reviews for this grammar point use fragment sentences?

For example, review sentences include:

  • “To eat and then.”
  • “To wash and then.”
  • “To walk and then.”

As an English speaker, these sentences are confusing because they’re incomplete, and since these are the sentences I see in my reviews, I feel like I’m not really reviewing how this particle is used in real life.

Are these considered complete sentences in Japanese? Or is Bunpro showing us fragment sentences on purpose? If that is the case, why?

#43

I having bit of trouble distinguishing some of the て grammar because they overlap sometimes. are we sure 1 or 2 of them may not be redundant? thank you

１て・で sequence (N5)
２～て (Conjunction) (N5)
３て・で (Adjectives and Nouns) (N5)
４て・で (Qualities and States) (N5)
５て・で (Reasons and Causes) (N4)
６～て・で (Non-Sequence) (N4)
７～て・で (Casual request) (N4)

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#44

て is a grammatical structure in Japanese that has very broad usage. Although they all stem from the same thing, the various uses are often taught individually across both N5 and N4, just to give learners enough exposure to start to develop an intuition for it.

@additionalramen sorry about the super late reply, it looks like your question was never answered! :cry:. If you’re just reading the translation, I can definitely see where you are coming from. Do you think maybe a translation like ‘To eat and then ~.’ would be better? To show that something would usually follow next.

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#45

LOL I totally forgot about this! I think I get now that the point of the exercises in this grammar point is just to practice the conjugation. However, I still find it odd that the sentences in the “About Verb + て” section are full sentences while the practice sentences are fragments. My personal preference is to practice the grammar points in the context of full sentences to see how they are used IRL. And most of the Bunpro grammar points do provide full sentences to practice with for the cloze-style reviews, so I’m not sure why this one would be an exception.

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