N5 grammar

〜と〜

to

And, for a closed list

Formation

と joins nouns into a complete list: these things and nothing else. When you want to leave the list open, や does that job instead. Use it when you are naming exactly what you bought or exactly who came.

Examples

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

  1. I'm a person with guts and a strong will.

  2. The basic Japanese diet consists mainly of rice and fish.

  3. Japan and Britain are island countries.

  4. With most things there's both what you see and what's behind it.

  5. There's a sauna and a pool.

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.