2024/10/20
Genuinely, thank you Genki for telling me that verbs cannot be connected with と. I was starting to wonder why て form appears to mean "and," but と also means "and" (but only in a list-like format). But now, I think I understand.
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て is for connecting verbs and adjectives to different words or phrases.
と is for saying multiple nouns go together with another thing. (for example: "food and water," or "restuarant with friends" - I suspect that when you connect them together, they act like one big noun)
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I am going to assume this rule also applies to adjectives, although Genki did not explicitly state that. By adjectives, I usually mean い adjectives. Because な adjectives are just nouns with the ability to transform into adjectives with the power of な.
Also, please note that I think と is also a particle that marks a quotation, which is almost always shortened to って. BE ALERT!!! (threat)