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Chinese grammar — the ba structure ba zi ju 把字句:is ba a verb, a preposition, or a coverb? Understand the usage of ba structure and 鄧麗君Teresa Teng 把愛埋藏在心窩 ba ai cang zai xin wo Bury Love In The Hearts

The BA-construction (把字句 ba3 zi4 ju4 ) is an extremely important syntactic structure in Chinese, which is frequently used in daily Chinese conversation. Ba3 has been a quite special Chinese linguistic phenomenon and drawing a lot linguists’ attention to decide … Continue reading

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