あちらこちら

あちらこちら · achirakochira · JLPT N2 · noun

there

👉👈 あちら + こちら = over there + over here, so here and there

Two pointing words joined: あちら (achira) is the polite word for that way, over there, and こちら (kochira) is this way, over here. Put together they mean all over the place. The a- and ko- prefixes follow the same distance pattern as あれ and これ.

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