connective N1 uncommon written

〜を経て — via ~

〜を経て ・ をへて

Meaning

Key sentence

After much discussion, we finally reached a conclusion.

Formation

Attaches toFormExample
Noun (a stage, process, place, or span of time) N を経て 三年さんねんの歳月さいげつを経へて

When: Written/formal — careers, procedures, routes, the passage of time.

Examples

He achieved success after going through many hardships.
This train heads for Osaka via Nagoya.

Easily confused with

を通して を通して spans a whole period or uses a medium throughout. を経て passes through an intervening stage or place and then moves on, stressing the transit. てから てから simply orders events ('after doing'). を経て frames passing through an intervening process or place, and is markedly more formal.

Notes

See 〜を経て in real sentences

Jengo shows 〜を経て the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.

Study it in Jengo

Sources Compiled from published Japanese grammar references.

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