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また details

again — the same thing happens one more time + write

mata kaku

again — the same thing happens one more time

meaning: write again

今日きょうはありがとう。ちかいうちにまた来るくるよ。

kyou wa arigatou. chikai uchi ni mata kuru yo.

Thanks for today. I'll come again before long. casual

昨日きのうおな場所ばしょで、またおな問題もんだいきました。

kinou to onaji basho de, mata onaji mondai ga okimashita.

The same problem came up again, in the same place as yesterday. neutral

Examples

again — a recurrence of something that already happened once

今日きょうはありがとう。ちかいうちにまたるよ。

kyou wa arigatou. chikai uchi ni mata kuru yo.

Thanks for today. I'll come again before long. casual

昨日きのうおな場所ばしょで、またおな問題もんだいきました。

kinou to onaji basho de, mata onaji mondai ga okimashita.

The same problem came up again, in the same place as yesterday. neutral

詳細しょうさいまりましたら、またあらためてご連絡れんらくいたします。

shousai ga kimarimashitara, mata aratamete go renraku itashimasu.

Once the details are settled, I will contact you again. formal

Formation

Notes

Sentence-initial また、 is a different word class — a conjunction joining
clauses, "also, and besides" — and takes no verb of its own.

Related patterns

Similar

  • もう一度 asks for one more instance right now, また only marks that a repeat happens at all — so "say that again" is もう一度言ってください, while またってください pushes the repeat off to some later occasion.

Lookalikes

  • One vowel apart and both stand before the verb, but また counts a repeat and まだ says the situation is unchanged — またた says the person came a second time, まだていない that they have not come at all yet.