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However, sometimes you will hear shita tsumori desu ‘it is

my intention to have (done)’ ‘I have tried to’:

Kirei ni kaita tsumori desu.

I have tried to write neatly.

4.16. More adverbs

You have seen some nouns used without particles to modify
predicates or whole sentences in 3.2. Here are some more

adverbs you will want to know, some of which cannot
function as nouns:

sukoshi a little, some, a bit

chotto a little, some, a bit

maiban every evening

maiasa every morning

saikin lately

takusan lots

taihen very (lit., awfully,
terribly)

taitei usually

futsū usually

tokidoki sometimes

tabitabi often

dandan gradually

nakanaka quite, rather,