And and ～たり

Doing this; Doing that

Construction:　
arrow Take the た form of a verb (simple past)
arrow Add たり

立ったり座ったり。
tattari suwatari
Standing and sitting

ドルが上がったり下がったり。
doru ga agattari sagattari
The dollar is rising and falling.

きょうは買い物をしたりレストランで食べたりしてたくさんのお金を使った。
kyou wa kaimono o shitari resutoran de tabetari shite takusan no okane o tsukatta.
Today I went shopping and at at a restaurant, etc; I used a lot of money.

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What I did not find in my grammar book...

Submitted by mezawari on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 23:36.

...was how to handle combined conjugations, say ~たい or ~てはいけません.

Turns out the preferred form is ~たり...~たりする where you conjugate the する according to your needs.

For example;
今週末山を登ったり、友達に会ったり、温泉に行ったりしたいです。
"I want to climb a mountain, meet a friend, go to hot spring, etc. this weekend."

Last example in the article is naturally correct, as "using money" is not in the list of example activities. This may be covered elsewhere, but I thought it might be good to mention this here as well...

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