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1. Vrnasu / VN shidai and N shidai dalde mean 'as soon as' and 'depends
on / depending on,' respectively. What is common to both cases is that
an action or state indicated by the preceding verb or noun is a prerequi-
site for another action or state expressed in the main predicate.
2. The Vrnasu of Vmasu shidai can hardly be sum-verb, probably because
it will create a sequence of shi-shi which is hard to pronounce.

3. As noted in Formation, as far as Vmasu shidai is concerned, the Vmasu
forms of honorific, polite verbs such as irasshatu, osshatu, nasam are
not irasshai-, osshai-, and nasai-, but irasshari-, osshari-, and nasari-,
respectively.
4. For the shidai structure, the main clause cannot be past tense.
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(My husband came straight home every day, as soon as he
finished his work.)

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(As soon as I received a call from the airport I went to
pick him up.)

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I. There is another structure -tam sugu with the meaning of 'as soon as.'
The crucial difference between Vrnasu 1 VN shidai and -tam sugu is that