N4 grammar

〜など

nado

And things like that

Formation

など rounds off a list to say it is not exhaustive. It can also play something down, including yourself, which is where its modest register comes from. なんか is the spoken version and is much more casual.

Examples

〜など is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. How about Thai food?

  2. The costumes were red, pink, blue, and so forth.

  3. Without a passport, leaving a country is out of the question.

  4. It gets cold in the mornings and evenings, so I want to take care how I dress.

  5. I don't care about the expense.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.