「と」(1) List things
「と」(1) List things
And
The particle と has many (a metric ton of) uses in Japanese. One of those uses is to combine nouns with the meaning of and and create an exhaustive list. The final と is omitted most of the time and A, B and C are expressed as AとBとC.
The normal structure is AとB, with a と in between the listed elements, similar to and. To be clear, this structure can be used to list more than two items.
彼女と私はもうすぐ帰る。
She and I will go home soon.
あそこで猫と犬が遊んでいる。
A cat and a dog are playing over there.
Special Note
The structure AとBと, with a と appearing after each item in the list, is also grammatically correct, but is not frequently used.
と can only be used to connect nouns or noun phrases. It cannot be used to connect adjectives.
ここのケーキは安いとおいしい。
Cake here is cheap and delicious.
The correct way to list i-adjectives is to use the て-form, which we will cover later.
ここのケーキは安くておいしい。
Cake here is cheap and delicious.
Formation
車と自転車