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Why does this sentence
ご飯を食べてから部屋を掃除してください。
has
から
Considering that the translation given is
After eating, please clean your room.
I thought with the given sentence it should be translated along the lines of "Since you have eaten - clean your room". With that "since" being derived from から.
Can someone please explain this nuance in both cases?
「te-form + から」(「連用形 + て + から」) means "After doing~~".
食べてから → after eating
「end form/終止形 + から」(「dictionary form + から」「連用形 + た + から」 etc.) means "Since/Because (someone) do/did~~".
食べるから → since/because (you) eat
食べたから → since/because (you) ate
Further to Shoko's answer, I'd say that there's also a difference in meaning: in the sentence without から (ご飯を食べて部屋を掃除してください) the ください goes with both verbs, so the speaker is making two requests - (a) please eat your meal and (b) please clean the room, whereas in the sentence with から the ください.only applies to the second verb, so the speaker is only making one request - please clean your room. I'd translate the first as "Please eat your meal then clean the room" and the second as "When you've eaten your meal clean the room please".
