後だったので v 後で interpretation


>   * たくさんの階段を昇った後だったので彼女は完全に息を切らしていた。1 ([original example
> sent](http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-
> bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1Q%B3%AC%C3%CA_0__).)
>   * たくさんの階段を昇った後で彼女は完全に息を切らしていた。2
>

My guess: there is a strong causal link between this and that in 1. 2 just
means "A happened, then B happened". Is that correct?




Exactly as you say.

>
> 「たくさんの[階段]{かいだん}を[昇]{のぼ}った[後]{あと}だったので[彼女]{かのじょ}は[完全]{かんぜん}に[息]{いき}を[切]{き}らしていた。」
>
> "After running up so many flights of steps, she was completely out of
> breath. "

The English translation from that page is not topnotch IMHO because it fails
to reflect the strong causal link that you speak of. **More specifically, it
does not even translate the 「だったので」 part.**

That looks more like the translation of your **second** Japanese sentence.

My own literal-as-possible TL of the **first** sentence:

**" Because it was (right) after she ran up many flights of steps, she was
completely out of breath."**

That should show the cause-and-effect relationship between the clauses as
clearly as the original sentence does.




Exactly as you say.

>
> 「たくさんの[階段]{かいだん}を[昇]{のぼ}った[後]{あと}だったので[彼女]{かのじょ}は[完全]{かんぜん}に[息]{いき}を[切]{き}らしていた。」
>
> "After running up so many flights of steps, she was completely out of
> breath. "

The English translation from that page is not topnotch IMHO because it fails
to reflect the strong causal link that you speak of. **More specifically, it
does not even translate the 「だったので」 part.**

That looks more like the translation of your **second** Japanese sentence.

My own literal-as-possible TL of the **first** sentence:

**" Because it was (right) after she ran up many flights of steps, she was
completely out of breath."**

That should show the cause-and-effect relationship between the clauses as
clearly as the original sentence does.

