I'm trying to understand the conditional tense and "if".
(this is all self-study, so I've no text books to work with, just my own observations of how I think it works):
チーズケーキを持ったならば, 食べたら
If I had cheese cake, I would eat it.
I'm probably doing it wrong. Though, really I'm confused when I should be using nara and naraba (I see 'nara' used for single nouns and 'naraba' for phrases... but "必要" (hitsuyou - necessary) doesn't follow this rule (hitsuyou naraba...).
Also, out of curiosity, is there anyway to say "or" in Japanese? It's not a particle so much as I know.