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As for this apartment, the rent is cheap, the

place is quiet, so it’s just the best.

Ano hito wa kakkoii shi, atama ga ii shi, supōtsu mo

dekiru shi.
That person is cool-looking, smart, can do (all
sorts of) sports (…).

Mō kurai shi, ashita ni shimashō.
It’s already dark, so let’s do it tomorrow.

O-kane wa zenzen nai shi.
I don’t have any money… (So what can I do?)

8.18. Correlative compounds

There are a few nouns made up from interrogatives and

other correlative words to give a meaning of a non-specific
nature:

daredare so-and-so, somebody or other

dokodoko somewhere or other

dokosoko someplace or other korekore
such-and-such a one arekore this or

that, one thing or another karekore
about, approximately

achira kochira (achikochi) here and there