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Hey everyone, I have a question about the sentence below… What is the grammatical function of the のか and のかなど in this list? It’s written by a Japanese woman at my university who I exchange emails with. The context is that she wants me to write her emails while I’m visiting Paris about what I do, eat, and learn. Couldn’t she have written this sentence using ‘たり’ form? (i.e. 飲んだり、食べたり、見たりします。）
どんなことをしているのか、何を食べているのか、何を考えているのかなど、いろいろおしえてください。
I understand the meaning of the sentence (What you do, what you eat, what you learn, and the various other things, tell me please); it’s just that I don’t know the purpose of のか and のかなど.
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キース.
たり form is used for making a list of verbs or state-of-being. This list is not-exhaustive.
昨日はパンを食べたり、映画を見たり、音楽を聞いたりした。
Yesterday I ate bread, I watched a movie and I listened to music (among other things).It’s different from what your sentence is trying to achieve. The のか completes the question parts of your sentences (“what you do”, etc.). など is separate and it means “et cetera”.
どんなことをしているのか、何を食べているのか、何を考えているのかなど、いろいろおしえてください。
Please tell me what you do, what you eat, what you think etc. -
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