Questions tagged [particle-ばかり]
助詞「ばかり」. Particle often translated to "just", as in "I just ate".
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plain form + bakari vs. te form + bakari
How to translate plain form + ばかり? And what's the difference between plain form + ばかり vs. te form + ばかり?
For example:
赤ちゃんが泣いてばかりいます。In my understanding this means "The baby is always crying/does ...
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Which ばっか is used in the following passage?
I'm having trouble interpreting the following passage. None of the definition of ばかり seems to fit. Can someone help me please?
お前．．．全部C先輩のせいみたいに言うなよな。根拠もねーくせに．．．
A君のそういう．．．肝心なとこばっかにぶいとこ。...
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What's the meaning of まだ知り合ったばっかりだ?
「使徒になってもらったけど、私はアヴァロのことまだ全然知らないなぁって思って」
「そうだなぁ。まだ知り合ったばっかりだし仕方ないんじゃないか？」
These are some lines from a game I'm currently playing. Does the second line mean "There's still a lot to find out about ...
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Does ばかり (meaning 'just happened') have to be a voluntary action (like たところ?)
Is ばかり the same as たところ in the sense that the action must be voluntary? e.g. Winter just ended, could you use ばかり？
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Translating て-form + ばかりいないで
I have a sentence from page 39-108 of Lake and Ura's Learn to Read in Japanese.
食べてばかりいないで少し運動したほうがいいですよ
The book gives a somewhat inscrutable:
Eating only not being, it would be better to do a ...
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Different ways of saying “X continues / keep doing X”
I am trying to figure out the differences between all of these forms listed below. The examples are all part of these two pages:
http://japanesetest4you.com/jlpt-n3-grammar-list/
http://...
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What does “da” mean in “tabeta bakari da”?
I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) that da is a short casual form of desu. But what does it mean in this phrase? or why it is used?
Tabeta bakari da.
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ばかり usage in 目もくらむばかりの宝石の山
An example phrase from プログレッシブ和英中辞典
目もくらむばかりの宝石の山 a dazzling heap of gems
Can ばかり here be safely replaced by ほど, くらい etc. without changing the meaning? Is this how ばかり+の (with ばかり working as a ...
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noun + ばかり [exclusivity sense] ambiguity
My understanding of ばかり so far (please correct if any of this is wrong):
After TE form, the meaning is unambiguous as it applies to the verb, e.g.:
本を読んでばかりいる。Do nothing but read books.
However, ...
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Usage of ばかり in とばかり思って
Can somebody please explain for me the meaning of ばかり in とばかり思って, as far as I can guess through the examples it means something like "そう思ったんだけど、実際に・・・・・・".
僕たちはずっと、彼らは一生安泰だとばかり思っていたんだけど、君の話によると、...
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Correct usage of ばかり
On a certain online correction site, my sentence:
正直に言うと、最近アメリカのドラマを観ていたばかり。
Was given many possibilities. Some people crossed out 「ばかり」 like 「観ていたばかり」 in the following sentences so I'm inclined ...
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Verbs + ところ / Verbs + とこ / Verbs + ばかり
I learnt:
食べるところ：about to eat.
食べているところ：in the middle of eating.
食べたところ：just ate.
食べたばかり：just ate.
I would like to know if I can change ところ for とこ in spoken language.
and if there is any difference ...
