Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Those funny four letter repeating mostly adverbs...

One of those cute corners of the Japanese language...

human behaviours
ねちねち・to preachily, harpingly continue to say the same thing;
あの人は他人の悪口ばかり、ねちねちいっている。
くどくど・to preach, harp or pick at

changes - of state etc
じわじわと・gradually
だんだん・gradually

attitudes
渋渋・しぶしぶ・reluctantly, unwillingly

appearence
まるまると・very fat

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