day 2bit by bit, all at once

bit by bit, all at once

Say how and how fast things happen (secretly, steadily, one after another, long ago) and share what you half remember with たしか.

today’s words

• うっかり · carelessly, without thinking
• こっそり · secretly, on the quiet
• 再三 さいさん · again and again, repeatedly
• さっさと · quickly, without wasting time
• 早速 さっそく · at once, straight away
• 始終 しじゅう · all the time, constantly
• ずうっと · all along, for a long, long time
• せっせと · busily, hard at work
• そうっと · softly, gently, quietly
• 続々 ぞくぞく · one after another, in a stream
• 絶えず たえず · constantly, without a break
• 近々 ちかぢか · soon, before long
• 着々 ちゃくちゃく · steadily, step by step
• 転々 てんてん · moving from place to place
• ところどころ · here and there, in places
• とっくに · long ago, already (long since)
• にわか · sudden; suddenly (にわかに)
• 一通り ひととおり · the whole thing, roughly all
• ひとまず · for now, for the time being
• ひとりでに · by itself, on its own

sentences

• 会議は、たしか三時からです。 · If I remember right, the meeting starts at three.
• 高橋さんは、たしか自転車で会社に来ている。 · Mr Takahashi cycles to work, if I remember right.
• 授業中に、こっそりメールを読んだ。 · I secretly read an email in class.
• 祖母は、毎日せっせと手紙を書いている。 · My grandmother busily writes letters every day.
• 店の前に、人が続々と集まってきた。 · People kept arriving in front of the shop, one after another.