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-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going")
  1. 1 -ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going") — as …たり…たり, after the -masu stem of verbs
  2. 2 doing such things as ... — used adverbially
  3. 3 expresses a command — as …たり…たり at sentence-end, after the -masu stem of a repeated verb
  4. 4 to be — from とあり, after a noun
  5. 5 indicates completion or continuation of an action — from 〜てあり, after the -masu stem of verbs
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

    sense 2 · doing such things as ...