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Japanese - Grammar Points

「と」(1) List things

「と」(1) List things

And

The particle 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 is omitted most of the time and A, B and C are expressed as ABC.

The normal structure is AB, with a in between the listed elements, similar to and. To be clear, this structure can be used to list more than two items.

彼女(かのじょ)(わたし)もうすぐ(かえ)

She and I will go home soon.

あそこ(ねこ)(いぬ)(あそ)んでいる

A cat and a dog are playing over there.

Special Note

The structure AB, with a 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.

ここケーキ(やす)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.

ここケーキ(やす)くておいしい

Cake here is cheap and delicious.

Formation

Noun + と + Noun + (と)

(くるま)自転車(じてんしゃ)

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