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彼此

あれこれ

this and that; one thing and another

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Examples

  1. 彼此考えてみた。

    あれこれかんがえてみた。

    I turned it over in my mind one way and another.

  2. 彼此と忙しい一日だった。

    あれこれといそがしいいちにちだった。

    It was a day of one thing after another.

  3. 彼此悩んだ末に、留学を決めた。

    あれこれなやんだすえに、りゅうがくをきめた。

    After agonizing over it every which way, I decided to study abroad.

  4. 人のことを彼此言うものではない。

    ひとのことをあれこれいうものではない。

    You shouldn't go making this and that remark about other people.

Common patterns

あれこれ考える
to think about it from every angle
あれこれ言う
to make all sorts of remarks; to nitpick
あれこれと忙しい
busy with one thing and another

Memory tip

Normally written あれこれ in kana; 彼此 is ateji. Beware the near-twin かれこれ, written with the same characters but meaning "roughly, getting on for" before an amount of time (かれこれ十時 = nearly ten o'clock).

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