A little help with the use of these particles (to and kara)

[Kraise]

First off ~Hajimemashite mina~

I'm a rookie in these forums, signed up just recently and this is my first thread.

been studying nihongo for a while(5 weeks), and now i'm sitting at a fairly "basic to intermediary knowledge"( still low on kanjis, 180 only)

while practicing text writing, i managed to find these two situations that made my head itch:

1 - "TO" joshi

Rei: ame ga furu to samukunarimasu



2 - "kara"

Rei: hataraki sugi kara byouki ni natta


are both of these particles stabilishing causal relationships ? could i translate the first one to "It got cold, because ir rained" and the second to "He got sick, because he worked too much" ?

if so, are these particles interchangeable or they represent different events that im not being able to notice?


thanks guys

 

[Mike Cash]

The first is a conditional, the other expresses a reason ("because").

How did you translate the first as past tense?

 

[Kraise]

The first is a conditional, the other expresses a reason ("because").

How did you translate the first as past tense?

ohh, mistakenly translated samukunarimasu for samukunatta


anyway, rookie mistake, i gotta study more grammar
thank you for pointing this