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2:25 PM

The following sentence appears in my textbook

高すぎて買えませんでした

I know すぎる and I know 買う, but its the first time Ive seen the て form.used that way. Amd I cant seem to find any reference of its use in the textbook. Could somebody explain it to me?

Ok, that was a stupid question

Just realized its a simple and

Xeo

"It's expensive and I couldn't buy it"?

*too expensive

3 hours later…

Daniel

6:02 PM

It was too expensive and I couldn't buy it

Xeo

6:12 PM

ah, does the past-tense form of the second verb carry on to the first one?

1 hour later…

blutorange

7:37 PM

@cypher For the furigana script, is it possible to escape the character 【 ? Backslash+【 doesn't seem to work. For example, if I write 単語の頭につく【S】の発音, the "S" gets interpreted as furigana.

blutorange

8:01 PM

@Xeo In **general** (if it's joining sentences), the tense does carry over. Prices are somewhat stable, so both interpretations make sense.

Consider this example: 働きすぎて、体を壊した. (I harmed my body by working too hard). This makes sense only if the working-too-hard took place in the past as well. Compare with the English "by working too hard", which doesn't contain any tense either.

Xeo

gotcha

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