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| − | <li><span class="speaker">A:</span> | + | <li><span class="speaker">A:</span> 雨 那么 大，明天 再 去 买 吧。<span class="pinyin"> Yǔ nàme dà, míngtiān zài qù mǎi ba.</span><span class="trans"> It's raining so heavily.Let's go buy it tomorrow. </span></li> |
| − | <li><span class="speaker">B:</span> | + | <li><span class="speaker">B:</span> 好 <em>吧</em>, 明天 一定 要 买 到。<span class="pinyin"> Hǎo <em> ba </em>, míngtiān yídìng yào mǎi dào.</span><span class="trans">.Fine,we're definitely buying it tomorrow.</span></li> |
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Revision as of 02:49, 1 July 2015
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The particle 吧 (ba) can also be used to concede a point. That is, 吧 (ba) can be used to accept or agree with something that you're not particularly happy about, the way we might use "all right" or "fine then" in English.
Structure
Similar to other uses of 吧 (ba), this usage is also simply placed on the end of a sentence or statement.
Statement + 吧
Examples
- A: 太 贵 了！That's too expensive.
- B: 好 吧, 我 再 看看 别的。. All right, I'll take a look at something else
- A: 你看 这样 可以 吗？ You think this is OK?
- B: 行 吧, 我们 的 时间 不多 了。.Yeah, we don't have a lot of time left.
- A: 雨 那么 大，明天 再 去 买 吧。 It's raining so heavily.Let's go buy it tomorrow.
- B: 好 吧, 明天 一定 要 买 到。.Fine,we're definitely buying it tomorrow.
See also
Sources and further reading
Books
- Chinese Grammar - Broken down into 100 items - Basic and Intermediate Levels (汉语语法百项讲练 - 初中级) →buy
- Short-term Spoken Chinese: Pre-Intermediate (汉语口语速成提高篇) (pp. 52-3)
- Short-term Spoken Chinese: Elementary (汉语口语速成基础篇) (p.98) →buy
- Boya Chinese Elementary Starter 1 (博雅汉语初经起步篇) (p. 55) →buy
- New Practical Chinese Reader 4 (新实用汉语课本4) (p. 246) →buy
