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From: muduri.
Subj: other conditional forms?
Date: 2010-02-05 06:17:48.

Thanks, the article's both interesting and useful. I've been trying to remember my Japanese recently and I remember finding the conditional confusing.

I have a related question - it may be covered in Tae Kim's guide but unfortunately that site's blocked in mainland China for some reason, so I hope this is a reasonable place to ask it. In English it's pretty easy to have two different subjects in the if-then sentence, e.g. "If he drinks the medicine, I'll be happy". Is that true for any or all of these four conditionals as well? Could you say, for instance,

彼が薬を飲めなら、私は幸せです。
"are ga kusuri wo nomu nara, watashi wa shiawase desu"

or is it more complicated?

Apologies if the rest of the sentence grammar is poor - it's been a long time!