# A little grammar help, please! **URL:** \ **Category:** Grammar\ **Created:** [July 14, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775 "2018-07-14T13:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ABCDEFGHIJ](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@ABCDEFGHIJ](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ABCDEFGHIJ)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/1 "2018-07-14T13:04:15Z")
This is a sentence from this evening’s listening practice. What is the use of the と? その世界地図の周りをオーリブの枝が、上から下へと下がっています。 Is it 途? As in “way”. Outside the use of 途中, I haven’t seen it much! Thank you for any help! ---
**Author:** ![seanblue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/seanblue/32/579844_2.png) [@seanblue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/seanblue)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/2 "2018-07-14T13:09:18Z")
Does it come with an English translation? Without any context, my best guess is that it’s the conditional と. [https://bunpro.jp/grammar\_points/143](https://bunpro.jp/grammar_points/143) ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/3 "2018-07-14T13:09:26Z")
Here’s a Stack Exchange answer on it. > I’m not sure what version of と it is, but I would say I don’t see anything conditional about it. Someone in the comments there talks about the “making things into an adverb” と. So that could be it. ---
**Author:** ![ABCDEFGHIJ](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@ABCDEFGHIJ](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ABCDEFGHIJ)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/4 "2018-07-14T13:16:02Z")
Thank you! The full part was, この旗は真ん中に北極を中心とした世界地図が書いてあります。 その世界地図の周りをオーリブの枝が、上から下へと下がっています。 オーリブの枝は平和を表しています。 It was about the design of the UN flag. ---
**Author:** ![ABCDEFGHIJ](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@ABCDEFGHIJ](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ABCDEFGHIJ)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/5 "2018-07-14T13:16:54Z")
Ah! Thank you for the link :). ---
**Author:** ![seanblue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/seanblue/32/579844_2.png) [@seanblue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/seanblue)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/6 "2018-07-14T13:19:29Z")
I wonder if there’s any relation between this へと and the と that’s kind of a conditional and kind of just used as a conjunction. ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/7 "2018-07-14T13:21:36Z")
I’ve never seen that と described as being able to follow a particle like that. But then again, my Handbook of Japanese Grammar Patterns doesn’t seem to have anything that fits へと. It might be a unique compound particle. When I google around for it, I don’t see things like をと or にと come up as generalizations. ---
**Author:** ![ABCDEFGHIJ](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@ABCDEFGHIJ](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ABCDEFGHIJ)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/8 "2018-07-14T13:27:54Z")
@Leebo @seanblue Here is the flag and the script for more context. However, I think that the Stack Exchange link’s description suits best here. Thank you both! ![57](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/8/9/891bd238093d99c4805087b056e1d1f55621a91b.png) ![52](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/5/8/589ca15240da5a22ff604d6687ff92be0355115b.png) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/2/a/62a8b0f4c59ff2c5b6651ffcf43531480b3e5297.png) [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/a-little-grammar-help-please/31775/9 "2019-07-14T13:27:55Z")
This topic was automatically closed 365 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.