supposing that; if we assume — a hypothesis set up for argument's sake

もしたからくじがたったとしたら、なにをする?

moshi takarakuji ga atatta to shitara, nani o suru?

If you won the lottery, what would you do? casual

この計画けいかく本当ほんとう実現じつげんするとしたら、予算よさんはどのくらい必要ひつようですか。

kono keikaku ga hontou ni jitsugen suru to shitara, yosan wa dono kurai hitsuyou desu ka.

Supposing this plan actually happened, about how much budget would we need? neutral

Variants

  • とすればtosurebaformal

    ば swaps in for たら — stiffer and more written, at home in essays and reasoned argument; interchangeable with としたら in most contexts.

  • とするとtosurutocolloquial

    shifts weight onto what follows as an automatic inference — "that being the case, then…" — reading even more like a step in a logical chain than としたら/とすれば.

としたら

としたらto shitaraN3neutral

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