notes

• 「ばかり」 means “just” or “nothing but”
• one common usage is with a past tense sentence to say that something has “just” taken place
• another common usage is to state that there is a large quantity of something (“there is nothing but”)
  • using 「ばかり」 after the て form of a verb means doing nothing but that verb
• 「ばかり」 can also be used to make conjunctions
  • ex: 「０が歌ったばかりか踊った。」 means “Not only sang, but also danced.”
• 「ばかりに」 can be used to explain why something happened
  • unlike 「から」 or 「ので」, this implies that something happened only because of something else

    resources

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