Fine-Grained Conditionals: sofern, sobald, je nachdem, insofern

One flexible Telugu suffix, and one sharper specialist, against three German specialists

Telugu's general conditional suffix -తే (te, seen in ఉంటే/అయితే) can stretch to cover 'provided that' with the right context, but German prefers the dedicated word sofern when the condition is a strict, formal precondition, often in contracts ('sofern nichts anderes vereinbart ist' — 'unless otherwise agreed'). For the exact triggering instant, Telugu actually has a tool at least as precise as German's: the suffix -గానే (gaane) attaches straight onto a verb stem to mean 'the very moment X happens' — 'రాగానే' ('the moment [he] arrives') — matching sobald's precision directly. je nachdem stands alone for open-ended dependency, with no single tight Telugu suffix; the closest equivalent is a phrase like పరిస్థితిని బట్టి ('depending on the situation', built with బట్టి, 'according to/depending on'). Treat sofern and je nachdem as filling narrower slots than Telugu's flexible -తే, while sobald and -గానే are a genuinely close, near one-to-one match.