あって

[themonk]

その小さい部屋には小さい 入り口が あって、 庭から 入ります。

This is from JBP. What does あって mean here? The translation attached to the book is:

The room has a small entrance that you enter from the garden.

I know that the translation has already smoothed things over. Thank you.

[NileCat]

The dictionary form is ある, which means 存在する which can be translated as "exist", I think.

[furrykef]

And it's in the ～て form because the ～て form means "[verb] and":

"In the small room, there is a small entrance and you come in from the garden."

[themonk]

Nile cat Sensei and Furrykeff Sensei
Thank you.

And it's in the ～て form because the ～て form means "[verb] and":

"In the small room, there is a small entrance and you come in from the garden."