stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 1 of 4 18 October 2009 at 4:55pm | IP Logged |
I have no problems using the construction tari..tari shimasu in Japanese but I am not sure how to use it in more complex sentences. Could someone check the following sentences?
クラスでタバコをすったり,たべたりしては � �けません.
こんどのしゅうまつ,にほんごをしたり,テレ ��をみたりするつもりです.
On my computer the kana are not all displayed correctly. The squares should represent ikemasen in the first sentence and terebi in the second.
Edited by stelingo on 18 October 2009 at 4:58pm
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Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6774 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek
| Message 2 of 4 18 October 2009 at 6:01pm | IP Logged |
You've almost got it perfect. The second sentence needs a better verb to go with にほんご. I assume you meant べ
んきょうしたり and forgot the べんきょう.
One of my Japanese school textbooks (got it from a friend) categorizes -tari as giving an "example" of activity.
Edited by Captain Haddock on 18 October 2009 at 6:01pm
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stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 3 of 4 20 October 2009 at 11:25pm | IP Logged |
Captain Haddock wrote:
You've almost got it perfect. The second sentence needs a better verb to go with にほんご. I assume you meant べ
んきょうしたり and forgot the べんきょう.
One of my Japanese school textbooks (got it from a friend) categorizes -tari as giving an "example" of activity. |
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Yes, I did. Thanks for the confirmation. Im using the textbook Genki and quite often there are too few examples given for a grammatical point, then you are expected to translate a phrase which is slightly more complex than the examples given.
Edited by stelingo on 20 October 2009 at 11:27pm
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ericspinelli Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5789 days ago 249 posts - 493 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Italian
| Message 4 of 4 21 October 2009 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
stelingo wrote:
Yes, I did. Thanks for the confirmation. Im using the textbook Genki and quite often there are too few examples given for a grammatical point, then you are expected to translate a phrase which is slightly more complex than the examples given. |
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When in need of example sentences, check out Space ALC. A search of the string "たりする" returns almost 1000 examples, without even getting into the possible conjugations for する.
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