You can use nara normally, but in this case your sentence is wrong
When you say "Atarashii neko ga katte iru", sounds like " a new cat is buying", because "ga" marks the subject.
The right would be: "Atarashii neko wo katsu nara, watashi wa ureshiku naru."
Posted by Anonymous on Jun 28th, 2010 at 10:59 am.
You can use nara normally,
You can use nara normally, but in this case your sentence is wrong
When you say "Atarashii neko ga katte iru", sounds like " a new cat is buying", because "ga" marks the subject.
The right would be: "Atarashii neko wo katsu nara, watashi wa ureshiku naru."