What is the purpose of using 悩ん with だり in the last sentence?


I know that だり...だりする is used to list verbs from my genki I book, but I knew
that wasn't what was occurring in my sentence. While looking for aid to figure
out what the だり in the last sentence means, I found this [answer
here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/62999/26406). I still can't figure
out what the だり is doing in the last sentence.

Therefore, how is the だり affecting the 悩ん in the last sentence?

>
> 体力も神経も使い果たし、疲れ果てて泥のように眠る毎日が続く。余計なことを考える[暇]{ひま}もなければ、夢を見ることもない。やがて、そんな生活に慣れはじめると、今度は物事をじっくりと考えることが苦痛になってきた。その時々の課題をクリアすることに、全力で取り組んでいる間は、何も思い悩ん
> **だり** せずにすむ。

My translation attempt:

> Using up my stamina and nerves, the wet dirt tires me out so that I wish to
> lie down every day again and again. Neither time to think to unnecessary
> things, nor things to dream. In the end, that sort of life when I start to
> grow accustom to it, now without rushing everything, my thoughts gradually
> become agony. That at times clearing the task, for all my power is a period
> of working hard, without worrying about anything among other things I feel
> at ease.




### The grammar

The ...たり form is essentially the past-tense ～た ending (or ～だ for verbs that
include voicing, like 悩【なや】む), plus ～り.

In your sample text, we have 悩【なや】んだり, formed just as above: 悩【なや】む has a past
tense of 悩【なや】んだ, and the ...だり form is just that past tense + り = 悩【なや】んだり.

### The meaning

The ...たり ending signifies that the action of the verb is taking place, _as
well as_ other actions. It is a kind of non-exhaustive listing. Basically, it
amounts to "doing XYZ, **among other things** ".

Notably, the non-exhaustive listing can have only one item in the list, as
indeed we see in your sample text.

### The text

The 悩【なや】んだり here appears as part of the compound verb 思【おも】い悩【なや】む ("to think
about worryingly: to worry about, to fret about"). Let's analyze that last
clause.

> 何【なに】も思【おも】い悩【なや】んだりせずにすむ

Breaking it down piece by piece:

JA | EN  
---|---  
何も | "anything, anything at all", implying a negative context  
思い悩ん **だり** | "worrying about, **among other things** ": non-exhaustive
listing  
せずに | "without doing"  
すむ | "conclude, finish"  
  
Putting this back together as a slightly-more-direct translation, we might
wind up with:

  * Things finished without me worrying about anything, **or doing anything like that**.

A direct translation is a bit unnatural. The "anything" in the English already
makes things pretty open-ended, and the "or doing anything like that" on the
end seems clunky. We could include the word "even" to accentuate that open-
endedness, in a way that is functionally close to the ...たり.

So for a somewhat-more-natural translation, we might wind up with:

  * Things finish without me **even** worrying about anything.

This leaves it open that the speaker may have done something else unspecified,
in a way that's a bit similar to the use of the ...たり construction in the
Japanese.

* * *

Please comment if the above does not fully address your question.




### The grammar

The ...たり form is essentially the past-tense ～た ending (or ～だ for verbs that
include voicing, like 悩【なや】む), plus ～り.

In your sample text, we have 悩【なや】んだり, formed just as above: 悩【なや】む has a past
tense of 悩【なや】んだ, and the ...だり form is just that past tense + り = 悩【なや】んだり.

### The meaning

The ...たり ending signifies that the action of the verb is taking place, _as
well as_ other actions. It is a kind of non-exhaustive listing. Basically, it
amounts to "doing XYZ, **among other things** ".

Notably, the non-exhaustive listing can have only one item in the list, as
indeed we see in your sample text.

### The text

The 悩【なや】んだり here appears as part of the compound verb 思【おも】い悩【なや】む ("to think
about worryingly: to worry about, to fret about"). Let's analyze that last
clause.

> 何【なに】も思【おも】い悩【なや】んだりせずにすむ

Breaking it down piece by piece:

JA | EN  
---|---  
何も | "anything, anything at all", implying a negative context  
思い悩ん **だり** | "worrying about, **among other things** ": non-exhaustive
listing  
せずに | "without doing"  
すむ | "conclude, finish"  
  
Putting this back together as a slightly-more-direct translation, we might
wind up with:

  * Things finished without me worrying about anything, **or doing anything like that**.

A direct translation is a bit unnatural. The "anything" in the English already
makes things pretty open-ended, and the "or doing anything like that" on the
end seems clunky. We could include the word "even" to accentuate that open-
endedness, in a way that is functionally close to the ...たり.

So for a somewhat-more-natural translation, we might wind up with:

  * Things finish without me **even** worrying about anything.

This leaves it open that the speaker may have done something else unspecified,
in a way that's a bit similar to the use of the ...たり construction in the
Japanese.

* * *

Please comment if the above does not fully address your question.

