Lesson 62
Te Form + kara
This one's a snap. Simple and useful, the Te Form + kara means "after (doing something)...," as in:
- Tabete kara kaimono ni iku. (After I eat I'm going shopping.)
- John wa shukudai o shite kara kuru. (John's coming over after he does his homework.)
- Naomi ga kaette kara tabemashou. (Let's eat after Naomi comes back.)
Please keep in mind that this one only works after verbs in the Te Form. You can't use it directly after nouns such as summer to mean "after summer." There are other ways to do that. With nouns that require the active participation of the subject, such as those two common ones work and school, you just make them the subject/object with ga, then add the Te Form of owaru, which means "to finish":
- Gakkou ga owatte kara yakyuu o yarou. (Let's play baseball after school.)
- Shigoto ga owatte kara eiga o mi ni ikimashou. (Let's go see a movie after work.)
Please remember that there's another kara that means "because" which is used with Base 3 (Lesson 29) and the Ta Form (Lesson 73).
Word Check
kaeru: to return; to come home
owaru: to end; to be finished
gakkou: school
yakyuu: baseball
yaru: to do (plain form of suru); to play games or sports
shigoto: work (noun); a job
eiga: movie
mi ni iku: to go (and) see (This is the Base 2 form of miru [to see] with the directional indicator ni and iku [to go]. See Lesson 13.)
(Verbs are shown in their plain form.)
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