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N3

〜たび(に)

Every time…, … againmachine translation

FormationVerb dictionary form + たび(に)/noun + の + たび(に)

〜たびに expresses "every time A happens, B happens along with it": この歌を聞くたびに、学生時代を思い出す (every time I hear this song, I remember my student days). Written in kanji it is 度. Verbs attach in the dictionary form; nouns attach with の: 旅行のたびに (every time I travel).

B is usually an emotion, a memory, or a discovery the speaker makes over and over — and it is precisely this "it's like this every time, here we go again" nuance that sets たびに apart from the conditional 〜と you learned at N4: 春になると花が咲く states a mechanical law of nature, while 会うたびに髪型が変わっている recounts a repeated experience with a touch of surprise.

Because it expresses repetition, たびに is not used for something that happens only once, and the second clause doesn't take commands or expressions of will. When B increases a step further with each occurrence of A, the sentence takes on an added "more and more" nuance: 会うたびに日本語が上手になっている.

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