means "each" in the sense of "each one separately": the members of a group do different things or have their own. As an adverb it stands before the verb, usually right after the group; before a noun it takes
.
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The students are each reading a different book.
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Everyone ordered what they wanted.
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Each country has its own culture.
それぞれ or みんな
and
treat the group as one: everybody does the same thing. それぞれ splits it up, so the sentence usually goes on to something that differs from one member to the next, like
,
or
.
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Everyone wrote the same answer.
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Everyone wrote a different answer.
"Respectively"
After a list of two or more, それぞれ pairs each item with the matching item in a second list.
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Tanaka and Yamada live in Tokyo and Osaka respectively.
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My brother and sister became a doctor and a lawyer respectively.
Every day, every week
For "every" with a repeated time, Japanese uses the prefix , not それぞれ.
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I drink coffee every morning.
- × それぞれの朝コーヒーを飲みます → 毎朝コーヒーを飲みます
means the same as それぞれ and belongs to formal writing.
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