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Kí ni o máa ße, nígbà tí o bá parí õΩkoœ$ rõ?
What will you do when you finish your studies?
Olú máa ra moœ$tò tuntun, nígbà tí ó bá lówó.
Olu will buy a new car when she has money.
Nígbà tí Doyin bá parí ißõ rõ, ó máa simi.
When Doyin finishes his work, he will rest.
In all the examples above, the part of the sentence with the nígbà tí
... bá is the condition on which the other action in the whole
sentence will take place.
Using lé.hìn tí and lé.hìn tí . . . bá
Both lõœhìn tí and lõœhìn tí . . . bá are used the same way as nígbà tí and
nígbà tí . . . bá. lõœhìn tí and lõœhìn tí . . . bá both mean “after,” but they
are used in different ways. For example:
lõœhìn tí
Lõœhìn tí mo parí ißõ, mo sùn.
After I finished work, I slept.
Lõœhìn tí a sùn, ara wa yá.
After we slept, we felt good.
A ßeré lõœhìn tí màmá wa dé.
We played after our mother returned.
lõœhìn tí . .. bá
Lõœhìn tí Kúnlé bá jõun tán, o máa sùn.
After Kunle finishes his food, he will sleep.
A máa lo≥sí ilé sinimá lõœhìn tí a bá simi.
We will go to the movies after we rest.
Kí ni o máa ße lõœhìn tí o bá parí õΩkoœ$ rõ?
What will you do after you finish your studies?
Use lõœhìn tí . . . bá in a clause that states the condition that the other
action will take place, as in the examples above.