Abstract
This study was aimed at clarifying learners’ awareness of the use of sentences containing the conditional expression “Tara.” To this end, I conducted a grammaticality judgment test and interviews with Indonesian learners of Japanese. The results revealed that learners are perhaps using “Moshi” regardless of whether it is a hypothetical conditional. In addition, results indicated that learners found it difficult to distinguish between expressions that can have more than one function, such as requests, permission seeking, and suggestions. I would like to expand the scope of the survey to include native speakers of Japanese.
