あれこれ – Vocabulary details

あれこれ

Adverb

Pronoun

Usually written in kana

1. this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that

彼かれがどんな男おとこの子こになっているか、あれこれ想そう像ぞうしていた。I was imagining all sorts of things about what kind of boy he would become.

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that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)

this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence

彼かれらはあれこれと話はなしをしています。

They are talking about this and that.

彼かれはいつもあれこれと文もん句くをつける。

He is always complaining of this and that.

あれこれ用よう意いしなくてもすぐ花はな火びできるし。

You can set off fireworks right away without having to prepare all sorts of things.

昔むかしから大お人となに混まじってあれこれ手て伝つだわされてきたし。

Ever since I was little, I've been made to help with all sorts of things alongside the adults.

あれこれ言いいながら、教きょう授じゅは結けっ晶しょうをライトにかざした。

While saying this and that, the professor held the crystal up to the light.

僕ぼくなんて偉えらそうに横よこからあれこれ言いってただけなんだから。

After all, all I did was butt in with this and that, acting like I knew better.

今いままでのあれこれで、よほど気き持もちが弱よわっていたせいだろうか。

Was it because everything that had happened had left me so dispirited?

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