たまに

たまに
occasionally

Reading

Readingたまに
N4 VocabJLPT N4adv.

Meanings

  1. occasionally
  1. once in a whileadv.kana
  2. now and then

Synonyms

たまたま

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

明日は晴れ、時々雨、実際は曇り、たまに雪、そしてハブられるみぞれ
あしたははれ、ときどきあめ、じっさいはくもり、たまにゆき、そしてはぶられるみぞれTomorrow is clear, sometimes rain, actually cloudy, occasionally snow, and the sleet that gets left out.
ところてんっておいしいけど、たまにしか食べないんだよなぁ
ところてんっておいしいけど、たまにしかたべないんだよなぁTokoroten is tasty, but I only eat it once in a while, you know.
たまに無性にクレープを食べたくなる
たまにむしょうにくれーぷをたべたくなるSometimes I suddenly crave crepes.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0