What conjugation of what word is 出なく?


牛からミルクが **出なくなって**

I'm having trouble working out the conjugation of the bold characters. I
assume that なって is the -te/connective form of なる... but what the heck is
**出なく**?

Logic tells me it should be some form of 出る... but I don't know which.

So... can anyone tell me where that 出なく came from? Is it just a typo of 出なくて?
Or am I completely misreading this and it's actually a different word
altogether?




At first, I was just going to comment on your comment on the other answer, but
maybe a different approach is better.

We can look at this two ways. If we build it up, it goes like this:

  1. 出る - to come out
  2. 出ない - to not come out
  3. 出なく - a "stem" form conjugation of 出ない (Japanese verbs and adjectives [share some conjugation rules](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_equivalents_of_adjectives#i-adjectives)) _such_ that it can be put in front of another verb. [not really sure how it would translate it English maybe "not coming out" ?]
  4. 出なくなる - to start to not come out. (possibly in the future). Here we are adding the helping verb なる (= to become)
  5. 出なくなって - it is starting to not come out _or_ it has started to not come out [continuative form of naru to express a state of not coming out]

So 出なくなって is the て-form of the helping verb なる when it's helping 出ない [the
negative form of 出る]

出なくて means something slightly different. It means "it's not coming out." and
is the て-form of 出ない

The difference being that 出なくなって indicates a **change** has occurred where it
_was coming out_ and now _is not coming out_ whereas 出なくて indicates merely
that it is _not coming out_.

So if tried to milk a cow and nothing ever came out, 出なくて but if you milked a
cow and it stopped providing milk, then 出なくなって.

In other words, 出なくなって is not a verb sequence. It's a verb plus a helping
verb. If you're looking for it in Tae Kim, then it's
[here](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/surunaru.html).




なって is indeed the te form of なる.

出なく is the morphing of 出ない (the negative form of 出る) to allow it to be
connected to another verb. so 出ない ＋ なる becomes 出なくなる (to start not coming out)
Adding the te form to the end is just a way of connecting it to another
sentence.

This can be done to connect any verbs, for example 食べない (negative of 食べる)
could become 食べなくなる (to start not eating / stop eating)

So in your example, 牛からミルクが出なくなって would be "The milk stopped coming out
(started to not come out) of the cow, and..."

