User Comments - khadejah

Posted on: Words with 可(ke)

Thanks. I was also able to look at some of the example sentences at

www.nciku.com . It seems it's an adjective, but i always hear it used by itself, so I thought it might be an interjection.

Posted on: Words with 可(ke)

I was also just thinking about this word: 可惡.  Could anyone offer an explanation about how this is used.

Posted on: Words with 可(ke)

Yay. I've been hoping for a lesson about this for a while.  I hear it used a lot in dramas、but couldn't quite get a sense of how to use it with other words. Thanks!

Posted on: Nothing more than 而已 (eryi) and 罢了 (bale)

This is my first post.  Being a teacher, I think a lot about context.  I noticed the pattern that 而已 seemed to go with nouns in the examples you gave:

a few minutes, that's all / a few sentences, that's all / a few things, that's all / one pair of shoes, that's all

But the 罢了 structure examples seemed to go with verbs:

just talking / just joking / just wants to be friends / can only do

The "adjectives" handsome and upset went both ways.

Am I reading too much into this?  Is is really just that one is more common in writing, or is the noun vs. verb thing a pattern in Chinese?