Saturday, 30 June 2012

とか

To break uncomfortable silences while you are searching for words, use とか as filler as follows:

~とか...~とか...

Example:
友だち:どんな食べ物が好きですか?
Poleさん:えーっと…さかなとか…肉とか…です。Let's see...I like fish...meat...and so on.

As seen from the example, also used to list several items. This is similar to や~など。

Source: Pera Pera Penguin Vol. 7

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