modality N2 common casualpolitewritten

〜て当然だ — it's only natural that ~

〜て当然だ ・ てとうぜんだ
Builds on て形

Meaning

Key sentence

If you're spoken to that rudely, it's only natural to get angry.

Easily confused with

当然だ 〜て当然だ is the て-form attachment pattern of 当然だ ('it's only natural to ~'). Full teaching layer, including the も・のも frames, lives on 当然だ.

See 〜て当然だ in real sentences

Jengo shows 〜て当然だ 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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