Make your heart race - tokidoki suru?

Japanese Language
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A few times recently I thought I heard “tokidoki suru” in anime I’ve been watching. From the context the meaning seemed to be “make your heart race” or “pounding heart” (someone’s reacting to being kissed!) Am I misshearing this? I thought tokidoki meant “sometimes” and I can’t find this usage in the dictionary (nor something that sounds similar). My listening skills are crap so most likely something else but can’t work out what.

Thanks

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It’s どきどき, the onomatopoiea of a heart beating fast. :slightly_smiling_face:

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My guess is that it’s ‘dokidoki’

yeah, what belthazar says…

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Thanks - wish my ability to parse what I am hearing were better.

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ドキドキワクワク！！！ you can use both words to say that you are super duper exited about something :wink:

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Tokidoki or ときどき or 時々 means “sometimes.” It’s not a する verb though so you’re definitely hearing ドキドキ instead, which is dokidoki not tokidoki.