Hello!
I was doing some Duolingo (Yes I do sin in my spare time) to practice some sentences and came across this sentence.
私たちの学校は大きくて新しいです。
It was translated as “Our school is big and new”
I have literally never seen this grammar structure before. Somehow the ～くて form functions as an and or something? Have I been blind my whole life, or is this translation just very loosely interpreted?
I have seen this construction many times.
Yeah. For example, この本は面白くて読みやすいです。 - This book is interesting and easy to read.
Not trying to post a “burn,” but this is N5 grammar, isn’t it? >_>
To quote my earlier work
Are… are you trolling? This is, like… N6 grammar. 
You always use て-form when connecting adjectives.
I really don’t understand the need to ask these questions. Not everyone learns the same. And even if they do, sometimes people can have a mental hiccup.
All I see is that this makes it even harder for people to ask questions.
Good on you for setting an example for others and just asking questions anyway, Pep. 
Not entirely sure what that’s a screenshot of, but essentially this is basic verb conjugations rather than a separate grammar entity on its own. If you’ve got DBJG, read page 464.
Ribbing. Pure ribbing.
No worries, I am never afraid of asking questions 
Thanks for defending me though 
It’s Bunpro, I thought I’d get all I needed from there 
I remember learning about the connective て form from CureDolly, so I know she covers it. ^^
Guess I should dive back into their videos
Tofugu… sorta covers it, but not well:
Oh wait! It’s like that thing.
I know the thing where you go like
山に登って、ケーキをたべた。
Just didn’t make the connection between the two.
Apparently I did know it, just hadn’t seen it this way. (I don’t read a lot as you might be surprised to learn)
(Also I am aware of te conjugation, just hadn’t seen it used in this scenario before)
I’m pretty sure I learned that a while ago but then forgot it because it was one of those “Easy enough to recognize from context” but also I won’t actually remember the rule if questioned at random. Thanks for the reminder!
Also, I have been getting absolutely owned by：
てあげる
てもらう
てくれる
て form connects verbs, て connects adjectives, て triad of evil connects to a pain in my moth… breathe
This has helped me a lot with those!
And most of the time I use this mnemonic.
When I give something to someone, I have less stuff, and I become agressive (あげる）
When someone gives something to me, I have more stuff, and I become cooler (くれる)
Strangely I think they only cover い-adjective conjugation - period - from the perspective of いい. いい: the last adjective you’ll ever need.
this is irrelevant but I’d just like to say I noticed there’s quite a number of people with cats as their profile picture…
Man, I thought for sure BP must have covered it somewhere, but they haven’t… That seems like a huge oversight. 
(On the Verb[て] form grammar point, it doesn’t even mention what it is used for (only external readings do. And て form for adjectives doesn’t seem to show up at all.)
