Thread: то-то и то-то

он сказал то-то и то-то, сделал то-то и то-то.

I met this то-то, but am not able to find it in dictionaries, neither under то nor -то. There is an exact entry то-то, but not the meaning in this context.

What do то and -то, and то-то mean?

Think of it like "this and that", "such and such", etc.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%8...%D0%BE#Russian
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%D1%82%D0%BE


At the heart, it is the word "that" то with the added particle -то, which emphasizes the affected word's importance for the sentence. (it also has other uses)

Ну я-то не ста́ну туда́ ходи́ть. ― Well, there's no chance I'm going there, anyway.

Об э́том-то я и хоте́л с ва́ми поговори́ть. ― That is precisely what I wanted to talk to you about.