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It would seem to me the sentence says "little sister makes cheese dokku (whatever that food is) and .. big brother ... ?

I can't understand 作ってみたら . Is みたら the tara conditional form of 見る? Is it another thing? By intuition I would guess he's trying to say that she makes the cheese dokku and he uploads it to internet (youtube) to be seen? perhaps? but I can't make literally sense of the phrase. If みたら is a verb in conditional form, which verb it is and how does it fit in the sentence?

Pablo
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  • Possible duplicate of [What is the difference between "verb＋て＋みる" and "verb＋(よ)う+とする"?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/19038/what-is-the-difference-between-verb%ef%bc%8b%e3%81%a6%ef%bc%8b%e3%81%bf%e3%82%8b-and-verb%ef%bc%8b%e3%82%88%e3%81%86%e3%81%a8%e3%81%99%e3%82%8b) – naruto Oct 14 '18 at 18:22
  • ok, so みた means tried and did something but what is that "ら" at the end? isnt みた and not みたら the example linked? – Pablo Oct 14 '18 at 18:36
  • https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/30516/5010 – naruto Oct 14 '18 at 18:45
  • Can you combine if + tried? Does that semantically makes sense? How would it be the whole sentenece translation, "if she tried to do cheese dokku" ( like if he didnt know if she did it or not?) But the guy actually knows she did it, because it's in the video he recorded? – Pablo Oct 14 '18 at 18:52
  • Did you read the two answers in the link? This question may be better: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/56156/5010 – naruto Oct 14 '18 at 18:54
  • Yes I did. But I dont understand how everything fits together. If I understood right, one says みた it's like saying tried to do something. And the other says ら adds conditional "if" to the sentence. – Pablo Oct 14 '18 at 18:56

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te-form + みる is "to try ～ing" or "to ～ (and see what happens)". This みる is a subsidiary verb.

みたら is the "past conditional" form of みる, but this form often just means "when" or "and".

Therefore:

妹がチーズドッグを作る。
My sister makes a cheese dog.

妹がチーズドッグを作ってみる。
My sister tries making a cheese dog.

妹がチーズドッグを作ってみた。
My sister tried making a cheese dog.

妹がチーズドッグを作ってみたら、…
When my sister tried making a cheese dog, ...
My sister made a cheese dog (as a test/practice), and ...

naruto
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