How to say "apart" in Japanese

• 離れ離れはなればなれCommon
  na-adjective, no-adjectiveCovers 'apart' as a state: people or things separated or scattered, each far from the others, as when family members live in different places. It describes the resulting condition of being apart.
  離はなればなれにちょうど２週間しゅうかん過すごしたところです。↗

  We've just spent two weeks apart.
• 別にべつにJLPT N3approx.Common
  adverbCovers 'apart' in the adverbial sense of separately: doing, paying, or keeping something apart from the rest, or as an additional, extra item. It marks things handled apart, not a state of being scattered.
  ソースを別べつにください。↗

  I'd like the sauce on the side.

Use 「離れ離れ」 for people or things physically apart or scattered from each other; use 「別に」 for doing, paying, or keeping things separately, apart from the rest, or as an extra.

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• 離れ離れはなればなれseparate
• 別々にべつべつにseparately
• びりびり(tear) to pieces
• 別にべつにseparately