Question #13. 飛行機が出る「①まで」まだ二時間あります。食事をして「②?」 コーヒーでも飲みましょう。

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#13. 飛行機が出る「①まで」まだ二時間あります。食事をして「②?」
コーヒーでも飲みましょう。
Hello!
Why is ②から here? None of the three definitions I have for から seem to fit. According to my book, when a verb precedes から, it indicates the reason for something. So the reason for eating is... to drink coffee? It doesn't make sense to me.
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から means "because" when attached to 終止形 of verbs, including conjugation forms, e.g., 食事をする, します, した, しない, したい, できる (+ から). から means "after" when attached to the -te form.

 

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から means "after" when attached to the -te form.

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That's interesting and it's not even mentioned in any of my three books about particles.

 

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That's unbelievable.

−から
((接続助詞))
2 〔「…してから」の形で，時間の起点を示す〕

生まれてからずっとここに住んでいる
I have lived here ever since I was born.

食事を済ませてから出掛けた
After eating, we went out.

家に帰ってからが大変だった
It was after he got home that the trouble started.

後半戦になってからが，彼の腕の見せどころだった
「It was in [It wasn't until] the second half that he really started to show his stuff.
からを英語で訳す - goo辞書 英和和英

 

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I know why I think.
I just met your explanation in another exercise I'm doing:
#25. わたし達は、横浜「①まで」電車で行って「②から」、バス「③に」乗り換えて、ホテル「④まで」行きましたが、ほかの人達は、そのとき「⑤まで」「⑥に」もうホテル「⑦」着いていました。
See ②. I Googled the information and what came up was てから, it seems it's approached differently than you. It's almost like てから is approached as a particle compound as opposed to being the suffix of the verb+から.
But thanks to you I got it right though!

 

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That's the same thing. The explanation you found is the one by 学校文法(school grammar); the grammar taught in Japanese school. て in the -te form is treated as a particle in school grammar. I used "the -te form of verb + から" instead of "連用形 of verb + てから" since I suppose non-native learners are familiar with the term "-te form" rather than 連用形. You've never learned, for instance, 行っ or 飛ん as a conjugation form of 行く or 飛ぶ respectively, right?