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staticdreams
Posted on: Useful Usages
December 1, 2013 at 10:21 PMWondering why the basic 使用 wasn't mentioned. As is, "exploitation" seems like a better title/subject for the lesson.
staticdreams
Wondering why the basic 使用 wasn't mentioned. As is, "exploitation" seems like a better title/subject for the lesson.
Posted on: The “然” Around
January 26, 2014 at 10:16 PMThanks for this, agree 100%, would love to see followup lessons covering the words you mentioned.
As for the general function of 然 in such words, I believe it can be thought of as similar to the English -ly suffix, meaning something like "in this manner". This is not the whole story though, and the meanings of some words don't appear to be reducible to the sum of their characters.