TAKOBOTO

in one's own way, one's own style
she has her own way of doing it

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わたしはわたしなりにじんせいかんをもっています。

I have my own outlook on life.

どうぶつはどうぶつなりのコミュニケーションができる

Animals have their own way of communicating

こどもはこどもなりにじぶんのせかいをもっているものだ

Kids have kids own world

そうなら、それなりにやってみてください。

If that is so, then try to do it accordingly (in line with that).

いうなりになる。

End up according to (as) what one has been told.

あのくにでは、わたしはがいこくじんだったのでそれなりにあつかわれた。

In that country I was a foreigner and was treated as such.

このプッシュホンもそれなりにやくにたつのがわかった。

This push-button phone turned out to be useful in its way.

すべてのこうふくなかていというものはおたがいににかよっているが、ふこうなかていというものはそれぞれそれなりにちがったふこうがあるものだ。

All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

そのえはそれなりによくできている。

The picture is good in its way.

タケオはかれなりによいやつだ。

Takeo is quite a good fellow in his way.

テレビのまんがは、それなりにきょういくてきだというひともいる。

Some people say that cartoons on television are educational in themselves.

わたしはわかいころにたくさんほんをよんだので、それなりにものしりだ。

I read a lot of books in my youth; I am a scholar in my own way.

ひとのかちはもちものというよりひととなりにある。

A man's worth lies not so much in what he has as in what he is.

かれにもそれなりにこわいものがある。

He has his own collection of phobias.

かれのいいなりになるくらいなら、ひとりでくらしたほうがましだ。

I would rather live by myself than do as he tells me to do.

しゅうにゅうがふえればふえたなりに、ししゅつもおおくなっていく。

@As~

Ref # Kanzen Master Level 1 - p66 - no.59

LR

Ref # A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar p559

LR

this might be easier to remember in english by using the same repetition
kids have kids own...
he has his own...

dc

hmm That means there is only one 'have' in the first example?

Miki

not to be confused with nari~nari which is more like, for example...

dc

oops. eagle eyes!

dc

なりに does not always mean "one's own way" as shown by my example.

bamboo4

なり could mean "accroding to" as shown in my examples, and it also could mean "even though not entirely satisfactory, but corresponding to the capability that one has" that could be equal to "one's own way" in a broad sense. However, don't forget that there is this modesty that is at the root of なりに.

bamboo4

ex# 3611 人となり is one word.

Miki

>miki ↑ which one word? 人となり you mean one 字 ?
or as spoken it is a set phrase?

dc

I think Miki is referring to the fact that 人となり in the sense it is used in #3611 is a single word - also written 為人, meaning "inborn character" - rather than an example of the なりに phrase.

srobertson

srobertson's comment is what I wanted to say. ;)

Miki

それなりに As suits the occasion

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