Suggestions with "ba"

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The particle 吧 can be used to make suggestions or soften the tone of commands. The structure is:

Command + 吧

吧 makes the suggestion sound more tentative and more polite.

Sources and further reading

Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar (pp. 307 - 311)

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