During A
The phrase that follows 間 is a continuous action that continues during the period/action A. This differs from 間に (show below), which shows a single, instantaneous action that occurs before the time frame ends.
- During A The phrase that follows 間 is a continuous action that continues during the period/action A. This differs from 間に (show below), which shows a single, instantaneous action that occurs before the time frame ends.
- During A (before A is finished/over) The phrase that follows 間に is a single action that occurs during A; specifically, before A finishes. This differs from 間 (show above), which shows a continuous action that occurs during the entirety of the action A.
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私が夕飯を作る間、弟はテレビを見ていました。
My brother was watching TV while I was cooking dinner.
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春休みの間、毎日友達と釣りに行きました。
I went fishing with my friend every day during the spring break.
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校長先生が話している間、その生徒はずっと寝ていました。
The student slept the entire time the principal was talking.
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~ながら's meaning/usage is very similar to ~間. While ながら requires the subject/actors in the first and second half of the sentence to be the same thing, 間 does not have this restriction.
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Stupie
Level: 86
(8 months ago)
အတောအတွင်းမှာ
- うちに မှာကကျ အပြောင်းလဲ ပါတယ်
- ဆရာမရှင်းပြတာကို နားထောင်နေစဉ်အတောတွင်းမှာပဲ နားလည်လာတယ်
- အေ ကခရီးသွားနေတဲ့တစ်လျှောက်လုံး ဘီ ကခွေးလေးကို စောင့်လျှောက်ပေးထားတယ်
- あいだに
- စာသင်နေတဲ့တစ်လျှောက်လုံး ဖုန်းကြည့်နေရင် あいだ / နာရီဝက်လောက်ပဲကြည့်ရင် あいだに
- နွေရာသီတစ်လျှောက်လုံး ခရီးသွားရင် あいだ / သုံးရက်လောက်ပဲ သွားရင် あいだに
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During A (before A is finished/over)
The phrase that follows 間に is a single action that occurs during A; specifically, before A finishes. This differs from 間 (show above), which shows a continuous action that occurs during the entirety of the action A.
- During A The phrase that follows 間 is a continuous action that continues during the period/action A. This differs from 間に (show below), which shows a single, instantaneous action that occurs before the time frame ends.
- During A (before A is finished/over) The phrase that follows 間に is a single action that occurs during A; specifically, before A finishes. This differs from 間 (show above), which shows a continuous action that occurs during the entirety of the action A.
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春休みの間に、友達を訪ねたいと思います。
I am going to visit my friend at sometime during the spring break (before the spring break is over).
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校長先生が話している間に、その生徒は逃げだしました。
The student ran away sometime while the principal was talking.
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ケイトは待っている間にボブとメアリに会った。
While Kate was waiting, she saw Bob and Mary.
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その間に彼女は泣きだした。
In the meantime she began to cry.
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