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I'm wondering if I translated the bolded part of the following sentence
correctly due to not being 100% certain on the rules of the て-form.

> 軍隊で使うような、 **重くて** 厚みのあるサバイバルナイフ。

I managed to translate the entire sentence as the following two possible
translations, the bolded words corresponding with what I bolded above:

> The knife is like a knife used by the military, **not heavy** , yet
> profound; it is a certain type of survival knife.
>
> The knife is like a knife used by the military, **not heavy** , with a
> certain thickness found in a survival knife.

According to the following link, the て-form of adjectives is the equivalent
negative and are created by replacing the 「い」 with 「くて」.

<http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/compound#Expressing_a_sequence_of_verbs_with_the_te-
form>

> Negative: Same as i-adjectives, replace 「い」 with 「くて」.

Seeing as how 重い can mean ' heavy ' or ' massive ', does this mean that the
te-form changes the meaning to ' not heavy ' if the て-form turns the original
word into a negative?

Site I use for 重い possible translations:
[https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/dictionary/entry_details.cfm?entry_id=32171&j=%E9%87%8D%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A6](https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/dictionary/entry_details.cfm?entry_id=32171&j=%E9%87%8D%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A6)
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grammar translation て-form
Did I translate the て-form correctly in this sentence?
> 「軍隊{ぐんたい}で使{つか}うような、 **重{おも}くて** 厚{あつ}みのあるサバイバルナイフ。」

「重くて」 means " ** _heavy and_** ". I am not sure how you ended up with " **
_not heavy_** ". Where in 「重くて」 are you seeing a negative element?

It **_is_** heavy **_and_** it has another quality to it, which is 「厚みのある」
("thick").

The negative te-form would be 「重く **なく** て」("not heavy and").

Finally, the phrase in question is **NOT** a regular sentence (but you
translated it as if it were a sentence). It is only a noun phrase meaning:

> "A/The heavy and thick survival knife that one might use in the military."
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No, て form does not mean it's negative, it's rather a sort of a conjunctive
form. Notice that the linked page is about verbs, and the description doesn't
say て form is negative, rather that negative て form of verbs is formed the
same way as regular て form of adjectives (because negative plain form of a
verb has adjectival form due to the ending -ない), as you can see from the
sample conjugations table below the quoted part.

The bolded part is an adjective in a (not negative) て form, so it keeps its
positive meaning joining what follows using "and".
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