Friday, December 20, 2019

grammar - Listing three or more items


In English, when we have three or more items, only the last "and" is kept, and the rest are omitted.



I like fish, curry, sausage, and honey.




What is the standard way to list multiple items in Japanese?



Answer



As stated in this other answer,



趣味はスキーゴルフ、英語と日本語の勉強、カラオケなどです


When making longer lists of things, Japanese typically works, unsurprisingly perhaps, in the reverse of English, with further conjunctions omitted.



Notice that "や" is only attached to the first element, and omitted afterwards.


You can see another example of this in this article:




アメリカイギリス、フランスなど7つの国の大統領や首相が集まる会議



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