N5 grammar

〜たり〜たり

taritari

Listing activities as examples

Formation

たり〜たり names a couple of things you did among others, claiming neither a full list nor an order. する comes at the end and carries the tense for all of it. Reach for it when describing a weekend rather than a schedule.

Examples

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

  1. I walked back and forth on the street.

  2. He was walking up and down the station platform.

  3. Some of the drivers were laughing and yelling.

  4. What passion cannot music raise and quell?

  5. On colder days, they curl up or dig a hole in the snow.

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.