connective N3 common casualpolitewritten
になると — when it becomes / when it comes to ~
になると
Builds on となる
Meaning
- when it becomes ~ / once ~ comes around — a time, season, or stage arrives and something regularly follows
Key sentence
冬になると、この町は雪に包まれる。
When winter comes, this town is blanketed in snow.
Formation
| Attaches to | Form | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Noun (time, age, stage, amount) | N + になると | 夜になると / 高校生になると |
Examples
春になると、桜が一斉に咲く。
When spring comes, the cherry blossoms all bloom at once.
この時間になると、店はどこも閉まっている。
Once it gets to this hour, all the shops are closed.
Easily confused with
となると になると describes a literal change of time or stage with a regular consequence (夜になると静かだ). となると is more topical and often hypothetical — 'when it comes to the matter of ~.' 〜と (conditional) になると is just になる + the conditional と, specialised for 'when [a stage] arrives.' The bare と conditional works on any verb for general cause-and-effect (押すと開く).
See になると in real sentences
Jengo shows になると the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.
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