If A is the case/situation
- If A is the case/situation
- As for A Usually followed by a characteristic or ability of A
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成田空港まで行くなら、京成電鉄が安くて便利だよ。
If you should go to Narita airport, the Keisei line is cheap and convenient.
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アメリカへ行くつもりなら、英語をしっかりとやり直しなさい。
If you are intending to go to America, brush up your English.
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あなたがコンサートに行かないなら、私も行きません。
If you are not going to the concert, then neither am I.
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明日雨なら私は家にいます。
If it rains tomorrow, I will stay at home.
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Basic Examples:
買うなら (if (I) buy...)
暑いなら (if it's hot)
彼なら (if it's him)
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たら
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Conditional Form/条件形
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セリナのカオちゃん
Level: 69
(10 months ago)
Hi! what do you mean by "ば" on the right side? for adjective, would it be 暑いならば?
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$tupid
Level: 159
(1 year ago)
(の)なら ~ မယ်ဆိုရင်
- အခြေနေတစ်ခုခုကနေယူဆပြီးပြော
- စာအုပ်ကိုမဖတ်တော့ဘူးလား၊ မဖတ်တော့ဘူးဆိုရင် / မိုးရွာမှာလားမသိဘူး မိုးရွာမယ်ဆိုရင် /
- စာအုပ်ကိုမဖတ်တော့ဘူးလား၊ မဖတ်တော့ဘူးဆိုရင် / မိုးရွာမှာလားမသိဘူး မိုးရွာမယ်ဆိုရင် /
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くるるぎくん
Level: 1
(13 years ago)
I figured i should post this on the mother page of the "if's"
so
when you use なら、there will be more info after it on the subject with なら before it
Ex:コンビになら、あっちですよ ＝ if your going to the corner store,its this way.
ば・えば is if you do this than something will happen.
Ex；もし読めば、分かりだす ＝ if you read, you will start to understand.
and たら is a little tricky so i will try to explain without mixing any of you up. The best way i keep up is by thinking of it as
after/when the action is done than you will be able to do the next
Ex; 東京に行ったら、買い物するよ = if/when i go to tokyo, i will shop(emphasis on i will) because its not like と where it is a posibillity, You are actually going to do it.
so
when you use なら、there will be more info after it on the subject with なら before it
Ex:コンビになら、あっちですよ ＝ if your going to the corner store,its this way.
ば・えば is if you do this than something will happen.
Ex；もし読めば、分かりだす ＝ if you read, you will start to understand.
and たら is a little tricky so i will try to explain without mixing any of you up. The best way i keep up is by thinking of it as
after/when the action is done than you will be able to do the next
Ex; 東京に行ったら、買い物するよ = if/when i go to tokyo, i will shop(emphasis on i will) because its not like と where it is a posibillity, You are actually going to do it.
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hyperbolic_knight
Level: 67
(14 years ago)
Watch out for usage between 「なら」 and 「~たら」, they are usually NOT interchangeable.「なら」 is used when the following sentence indicates an action that is supposed to happen before the adjective/noun/verb adjointed to 「なら」.
On the other hand, 「~たら」is used when the following sentence is supposed to happen after the verb conjugated happens.
On the other hand, 「~たら」is used when the following sentence is supposed to happen after the verb conjugated happens.
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As for A
Usually followed by a characteristic or ability of A
- If A is the case/situation
- As for A Usually followed by a characteristic or ability of A
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彼ならできるでしょう。
He could do it.
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彼ならいつでも力になってくれるよ。
He'll always come through.
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私なら半時間でやれる。
I can do it in half the time.
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私ならそれを買います。
If I were you, I'll buy that one.
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