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1f 118. To itte, " saying that ; " to omotte, "thinking that ;" to kiite, " asking (lit. hearing) whether," and similar gerundial phrases, are often contracted "to tote (vulgarly tie). Tote frequently has a sort of oppositive force, as in the following examples :
Ikura gakumon shita (However much a man
ffoif-nutch study hare-done may Study (mOYC lit.
tote, okonai ga warukereba, J saying that a man
(saying) that, conduct (nom.) if-is-bad, j ma y study howmuch),
nothing will come of it jf he is badly behaved.
You cannot get shown itta "kara tote,'" haik'en" J over the Mint simply
went because that, adoring-look J by going there and
wa dekimasen. asking to see it.
as-for, cannot-do
1F 119. II. To sometimes means " and." When it has this sense, it is, like the Latin que, generally repeated after each noun. Even when not so repeated, it always be- longs to the word immediately preceding it, not to the word following it. Europeans often make the mistake of commencing a clause by to, in imitation of the European idiom which introduces clauses by the conjunc- tion " and " ; but this sounds ludicrous in Japanese :
Anata to, watakushi to. You and I.
Furansu to, Doitsu to. France and Germany.
IT 120. III. To sometimes means " if." It has this sense only after the present tense of verbs and adjectives, thus: So sunt to, shikar aremasu. ( You will get scolded
So do if, get-scolded. {if you do that.
Sugu ikanai to, ( __
Immediately go-not if, I You Will be tOO late
okuremasii. j if you don't go at once.
are-late. ^
