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JLPT N3 Lesson 5: Advanced Conditionals and Timing

Overview At N4, you mastered the four basic conditional patterns: 〜たら (if/when, past trigger), 〜ば (if, hypothetical condition), 〜と (if, natural consequence), and 〜なら (if, given that). At N3, the conditional system expands into patterns that carry richer semantic nuances—urgency, repetition, instantaneous reaction, duration of an ongoing state, and dependency. The difference between N4 and N3 conditionals is not just grammatical complexity; it is the addition of emotional color, timing...