「なんで この時は、食べてになるのに、待ってになるんですか? 」みたいな、
What does verb in て form + になる mean here?
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Sign up to join this communityGiven your context, the speaker is mentioning specific word forms 食べて and 待って, and they have no grammatical connection with other parts of the sentence. To be a little reader-friendlier:
「なんでこの時は、『食べて』になるのに、『待って』になるんですか?」
"Why does it become 'matte' while 'tabete' in this case?"
But few native speakers would be confused by this kind of insertion of a couple raw words without explicit indication.