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牛からミルクが **出なくなって**

I'm having trouble working out the conjugation of the bold characters. I
assume that なって is the -te/connective form of なる... but what the heck is
**出なく**?

Logic tells me it should be some form of 出る... but I don't know which.

So... can anyone tell me where that 出なく came from? Is it just a typo of 出なくて?
Or am I completely misreading this and it's actually a different word
altogether?
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verbs conjugations
What conjugation of what word is 出なく?
なって is indeed the te form of なる.

出なく is the morphing of 出ない (the negative form of 出る) to allow it to be
connected to another verb. so 出ない ＋ なる becomes 出なくなる (to start not coming out)
Adding the te form to the end is just a way of connecting it to another
sentence.

This can be done to connect any verbs, for example 食べない (negative of 食べる)
could become 食べなくなる (to start not eating / stop eating)

So in your example, 牛からミルクが出なくなって would be "The milk stopped coming out
(started to not come out) of the cow, and..."
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At first, I was just going to comment on your comment on the other answer, but
maybe a different approach is better.

We can look at this two ways. If we build it up, it goes like this:

  1. 出る - to come out
  2. 出ない - to not come out
  3. 出なく - a "stem" form conjugation of 出ない (Japanese verbs and adjectives [share some conjugation rules](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_equivalents_of_adjectives#i-adjectives)) _such_ that it can be put in front of another verb. [not really sure how it would translate it English maybe "not coming out" ?]
  4. 出なくなる - to start to not come out. (possibly in the future). Here we are adding the helping verb なる (= to become)
  5. 出なくなって - it is starting to not come out _or_ it has started to not come out [continuative form of naru to express a state of not coming out]

So 出なくなって is the て-form of the helping verb なる when it's helping 出ない [the
negative form of 出る]

出なくて means something slightly different. It means "it's not coming out." and
is the て-form of 出ない

The difference being that 出なくなって indicates a **change** has occurred where it
_was coming out_ and now _is not coming out_ whereas 出なくて indicates merely
that it is _not coming out_.

So if tried to milk a cow and nothing ever came out, 出なくて but if you milked a
cow and it stopped providing milk, then 出なくなって.

In other words, 出なくなって is not a verb sequence. It's a verb plus a helping
verb. If you're looking for it in Tae Kim, then it's
[here](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/surunaru.html).
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