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11-09-2010, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by chryuop View Post
Yea when you said about the 2 errors I remembered immediately あと requires past and とき present...
とき doesn't "require" present. You can use past. It's just the meaning changes:

東京にいるとき、... while in Tokyo [the time I was in the state of being in Tokyo]
東京にいたとき... after having been in Tokyo [the time I was in the state of having been but no longer being in Tokyo]
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