What might this Japanese word/phrase I keep hearing mean? Sounds like わりわり. When I am watching Japanese movies, tv programmes etc I keep hearing people say the same two words. As it is spoken not writen I'm not sure on the spelling but it sounds like they say wari wari, maybe わりわり. It sounds like it always comes at the beginning of a sentance, maybe some sort of conjunction? Turning on the subtitles doesnt help as each time they say something different. So i cant find a pattern through the translations that works either and looking up the word in a dictonary gave me no sensible result either. Im guessing it is a very native way of saying something, all I know really is it appears to be a very high frequency word