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- 1. (adverb) also; both ... and ... (before predicates only)
- 2. (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a]
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Often used in the pattern 连...也... meaning 'even', or in 无论...也... meaning 'no matter...'.
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也 comes before the predicate (verb/adjective) and after the subject. Don't place it at the beginning of a clause like English 'also'.
Grammar
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Use 坐也不是，站也不是 and 进也进不得，退也退不得 to describe feeling stuck when no choice works.
Use 让我开心的是它，让我着急的也是它 to say that one thing is behind two very different results.
Say “not a single one” and “not at all” with 一...也/都 + 不/没.
In condensed sentences, 不 A 不 B means “if not A, then not B”: 不见不散, 不去不行, 雨不停我们不出发.
Use 不...也... for “even without …” and 再...也... for “no matter how …,” with the result staying the same.
Put 也 right before the verb of a second clause to say “also” or “too,” and use 还 when the same person adds one more thing.
Use 任……也…… to say that however someone acts, or however strong a situation is, the result stays the same.
Use 即使 or 就是 to imagine a difficult case, then 也 to say the result still holds.
哪怕 and 就算 introduce an “even if” situation, and 也 in the second clause says the result stays the same.
Use （在）工作之余 for what someone does in the time left over from work or study, and 高兴之余 for a second feeling alongside the first.
Once a person or thing has been named, Chinese usually leaves it out of the following clauses instead of repeating it or using 他 and 它.
Use 既……，又/也…… to say something has two qualities or does two things at once.
Say “even if … still …” in formal Chinese with 纵然 or 纵使, as in 纵然困难再多，我们也要把这项工作完成.
虽 is the written, one-character form of 虽然; it usually follows the subject, and the next clause turns with 但, 可, 却 or 也.
Use 还 in a second clause to add one more thing someone did, does, or is.
Use 连...都 to make advanced emphasis sentences precise and natural.
Say that something must be done whether anyone wants to or not, as in 去也得去，不去也得去.
Use 再也不 to say you will never do something again, and 再也没(有) to say something never happened again after a point in the past.
Say that something just won’t happen however hard you try, as in 我怎么也睡不着 and 我怎么找都没找到.
Place “all” and “also” naturally in short Chinese sentences.
Handle basic exception sentences before the HSK 4 expanded pattern.
Example Sentences
5 shown我 也 是学生。
哭 也 无济于事，还是想办法解决问题吧。
我一点 也 不想家。
连他 也 来了。
异性朋友之间 也 可以有纯粹的友谊。
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Words Containing 也
that's fine
in other words
perhaps
(not) any more
best not to mention it
lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions
hardly any better
just as bad; not much better
that is
(coll.) to get one's just deserts
(reduplicated) whether... or...
Yemen
words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb)
not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical)
Life is short, learning is limitless
without a second thought
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[hán xìn] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[dà jiāng jūn]
(Internet slang) I can't even...
Adolphe Thiers
mouth full of literary phrases
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft
Vienna, capital of Austria
lit. even a mosquito, though tiny, provides some nourishment (idiom)
lit. even a locust provides some nourishment (idiom)
strangely enough
(Internet slang) (lit.) to get shot even though lying down; (fig.) to be unfairly targeted
lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[zuì yǔ fá]
lit. as if flying