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Posted on: What does 厉害 (lìhai) mean, anyway?
January 28, 2018, 09:41 AM

Thank you very much. It has been very useful.

Posted on: Buying Fresh Fish in the Market
January 21, 2018, 09:56 PM

啦 is the contraction of 了啊, and, at the end of a sentence, it is used to indicate exclamation.

If you left off this 啦, the sentence would be affirmative, no exclamative.

If you changed 啦 for 了, it would mean a change of state,  then the fish before were not fresh, but now it is fresh.

At least, that’s my opinion.

Posted on: 免税品
January 03, 2018, 10:07 AM

From my view the differences are the following

In ancient times, 这 was used in colloquial language, while 此 was limited to formal language.

Nowadays, 这 is more popular than 此 since the written Chinese is much more colloquial than it was in ancient times. But some usages of 此 still remain.

There are some rules:

·        此 is only uses in formal language.

·        Don’t use measure words 此:

这本书 - 此事

·        When they mean more than "this", for example, this moment, right now, they are not exchangeable.

我这就去。我这才看见。

 

Regarding 该, it means this when is equal to “the above-mentioned”:

该地区盛产煤。  

Gāi dìqū shèngchǎn méi.

This region produces large quantities of coal.