What does してて mean?


I was watching an [Easy Japanese](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qzzweIQoIOU)
video on YouTube.

At 1:37, the interviewer says:

> 素敵。やっぱり普段生活 **してて** も感じる？あ、優しいって。

What does `してて` mean? Or is it a typo? `して` makes sense here, but I don't
understand `してて`. It's there in both the Japanese script and the English
transliteration.




As you can see in [here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/30996/9831), い
in 「てform + subsidiary verb いる」 can get dropped in casual speech, eg 見ている→見てる,
している→してる, so..

> 生活 **してて** も感じる

is a colloquial pronunciation of..

> 生活 **していて** も感じる

生活していて is the te-form of 生活している, "be living", "be leading a life". It's like
the progressive/continuous form, as opposed to the present/plain form
(=「生活する」"live", "live a life").

In your example, 「～て(い)て」 is used to mean "while (you're) doing~~":

> 普段生活していても感じる？  
>  _lit._ "You're living a daily life, and you feel it, too?"  
>  → "Do you (still/also) feel it while you're living a daily life? / in your
> daily life?"

The 普段 is functioning as an adverb here, "normally" "usually" or "daily"
(since we don't have a compound noun 「普段生活」). The も adds a nuance of "too",
"also", "still", or "even".

Some examples using 「～～て(い)て～～」 "~~ while/when doing~~":

> 歩い **て(い)て** ころんだ。 I fell while walking.  
>  料理し **て(い)て** 指を切った。 I cut my finger while cooking.  
>  目をつぶっ **て(い)ても** できる。 I can do it even with my eyes closed.




As you can see in [here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/30996/9831), い
in 「てform + subsidiary verb いる」 can get dropped in casual speech, eg 見ている→見てる,
している→してる, so..

> 生活 **してて** も感じる

is a colloquial pronunciation of..

> 生活 **していて** も感じる

生活していて is the te-form of 生活している, "be living", "be leading a life". It's like
the progressive/continuous form, as opposed to the present/plain form
(=「生活する」"live", "live a life").

In your example, 「～て(い)て」 is used to mean "while (you're) doing~~":

> 普段生活していても感じる？  
>  _lit._ "You're living a daily life, and you feel it, too?"  
>  → "Do you (still/also) feel it while you're living a daily life? / in your
> daily life?"

The 普段 is functioning as an adverb here, "normally" "usually" or "daily"
(since we don't have a compound noun 「普段生活」). The も adds a nuance of "too",
"also", "still", or "even".

Some examples using 「～～て(い)て～～」 "~~ while/when doing~~":

> 歩い **て(い)て** ころんだ。 I fell while walking.  
>  料理し **て(い)て** 指を切った。 I cut my finger while cooking.  
>  目をつぶっ **て(い)ても** できる。 I can do it even with my eyes closed.

