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I already know there is the adjective iroiro+na, and I've learned that, but recently I've learned that iroiro+to and iroiro+no are different ways to use "iroiro", which I have not learned in class, yet I've already finished the course... I can't really find an answer online though. Any explanation will help.
Thank you.
The footnoted answer to your question leads to a distinction between the adjectival “-na” and adverbial “-to” suffixes.
I stumbled into an expression which seems to be a hybrid. In the Netflix version of 僕だけがいない街, Episode #1, Satoru’s mother tells him she’s there to help him after he was injured in a traffic accident. She points out, 「いろいろと不便だべさ」.
This puzzled me “bigly“. Having said that, I think there’s a clue in this use of “big” as an adverb. As in, “It’s variously inconvenient.”
BTW, the title of the show on Netflix is “Erased”.
