Help me with this doubt :)
So I'm studying by myself and in my book this sentence came up:
電話をかけてから、友達のうちへいきます。
I don't really understand this sentence, knowing the meaning of the words my silly guess is:
when I phone, I go to my friends house.
Which makes 0 sense to me, but the next sentence(which is the same structure) I think I actually understand the meaning because of the verb tense:
うちへかえってから、晩ごはんを食べました。
When I went home , I ate my dinner.
Is it me or the Te form of kakemasu is translated as a past tense cause of the verb tabemas being in past tense?
1: What does the first sentence mean?
2: Am I right with the second one?
Thank you! :D
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Please let me write in Spanish for my poor English.
電話をかけてから、友達のうちへいきます。
電話をかける = 電話をする = llamar a alguien
-てから = después de ...
うちへかえってから、晩ごはんを食べました。
= Después de volver/llegar a mi casa, cené. (Después de que había vuelto a mi casa, cené.)
De hecho, no entendí tu pregunta "is it me or the TE form..." por mi inglés. ¿Me la podrías decir en español?
Hasta aquí, espero que te ayude.
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1.The first sentence means:
After I phone, I go to my friend’s house.
or
After I phone, I’ll go to my friend’shouse.
2.Not wrong, but more accurately:
After I went back home, I ate my dinner.
から has several meanings, and it is ‘After’ here. When から is used as ‘After’, the verb before から always has to be in Te-form regardless of when the action actually take/took/will take place.
The first sentence is a little tricky, because the present tense of a Japanese verb also allows roughly two interpretations.
One is about customs: something you usually/always do, and here the sentence sounds like “After I phone, I go to my friend’s house, and I usually do so”
The other is about the future, and that’s why I made it as “I’ll go”.
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Sorry I copy&pasted my comment onto correction form.
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