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I was reading this article and I am not too sure about sentence I came across.
男の子は「... 珍しいカブトムシだとわかってとてもうれしいです」と話していました。
I have a few problem areas here. I read it as: The boy said 'If the beetle is rare then understand and very happy'
I believe だと is being used a a conditional here. So to me the part 珍しいカブトムシだと means: If/When the beetle is rare. But After that it falls a part as I'm not sure how わかってとてもうれしい should be handled
だと is not being used as a conditional. In fact, と is being using as a quotation particle. When using the verb わかる to express that you understand a statement, you use the form:
statement + とわかる.
In this case the statement would be 珍しいカブトムシだ (i.e. it’s a rare beetle).
In this case we also have わかる in its て form to produce the compound sentence:
The boy said ‘I know that it’s a rare beetle and I’m very happy about it’.
(Or something along those lines)
