Japanese

<p>
	We’ve previously looked at connecting clauses with the <strong>て-form</strong>,
	for example: <strong><ruby>手teを洗araって食taべてください。</ruby></strong>
	The <strong>て-form</strong> implies that the things mentioned are the only things involved.
</p>

<p>
	
	If you want to imply that there are other things as well, we can use the suffix <strong>〜たり</strong>.
	It is constructed in the same way as the <strong>て-form</strong>,
	so the only thing we need to do is replace <strong>〜て</strong> with <strong>〜たり</strong>.
</p>  

<table class="ui celled definition table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
			<td>Plain form</td>
            <td><ruby>食ta</ruby>べる</td>
			<td><ruby>飲no</ruby>む</td>
			<td>する</td>
			<td><ruby>行i</ruby>く</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
			<td>て-form</td>
            <td><ruby>食ta</ruby>べて</td>
            <td><ruby>飲no</ruby>んで</td>
			<td>して</td>
			<td><ruby>行i</ruby>って</td>
        </tr>
		<tr>
			<td>たり-form</td>
            <td><ruby>食ta</ruby>べたり</td>
            <td><ruby>飲no</ruby>んだり</td>
			<td>したり</td>
			<td><ruby>行i</ruby>ったり</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	A verb in the <strong>たり-form</strong> is used in combination with the verb <strong>する</strong> to make sentences.
</p>

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    </tbody>
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<p>
	We can change the tense of the sentence by changing the tense of the <strong>する</strong> verb.
</p>

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<p>
	<strong>〜たり</strong> can also be used with nouns and adjectives in the following ways:
</p>

<table class="ui celled definition table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Verbs</td>
            <td>Verb + たり</td>
			<td>する</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Nouns</td>
            <td>Noun + だったり</td>
			<td>です・だ</td>
        </tr>
		<tr>
            <td>い-adjectives</td>
			<td>い-adjective + <s>い</s>かったり</td>
			<td>です・だ</td>
        </tr>
		<tr>
            <td>な-adjectives</td>
            <td>な-adjective + だったり</td>
			<td>です・だ</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	See the table below for some examples of using <strong>〜たり</strong> with nouns and adjectives.
</p>

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Listing multiple things with ~たり

hiragana character

kanji

adnominal

adverb

auxiliary

conjunction

compound

i-adjective

interjection

noun

na-adjective

numeral

particle

case particle

conjunctive particle

discourse particle

prefix

pronoun

suffix

verb

sentence

hiragana writing

kanji writing

kanji component

reading vocabulary

katakana writing

katakana character

godan - group 1

itidan - group 2

group 3

transitive

intransitive

proper noun

discourse

phrase

expression

Word	東とう京きょう　で　たくさん　食たべたり、　友とも達だち　と　会あったり　しました。 toukyou de takusan tabetari, tomodati to attari simasita.
Meaning	In Tokyo, I ate lots and met my friends (etc.).
Part of speech	sentence
Pronunciation

to meet, to see	会あう au
to eat	食たべる taberu
many, much, a lot	たくさん takusan
and; or; with; if	と to
to do	する suru
location particle (for events and actions)	で de
friend	友ともだち tomodati
Tokyo	東とう京きょう toukyou
and^{not exclusive}; doing such things as ...	〜たり tari

Japanese

toukyou de takusan tabetari, tomodati to attari simasita.

Breakdown of toukyou de takusan tabetari, tomodati to attari simasita.

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