while; as it is (unchanged state)

ながらに describes a state that remains as it is while something else happens. Attach it to a noun or a verb's masu-stem (涙ながらに, 生まれながらに). The modifying form is ながらの. It conveys doing something in an unchanged condition.

Examples

• 彼女かのじょは涙なみだながらに、当時とうじの話はなしをした。

  Kanojo wa namida nagara ni, touji no hanashi o shita.

  She told the story of that time in tears.

• この町まちは昔むかしながらの風景ふうけいを残のこしている。

  Kono machi wa mukashi nagara no fuukei o nokoshite iru.

  This town preserves its old-time scenery.

Vocabulary in these examples

• 彼女 she, her
• する to do
• この this (+ noun)
• 町 town
• 昔 old times, the past
• いる to exist (animate); to be

Related patterns · Manner and accompaniment

• 〜かたわら while also; on the side
• 〜がてら while; on the way to; combining with
• 〜まみれ covered in; smeared with
• 〜ずくめ entirely; full of; all (the same)
• 〜めく to show signs of; to become -like