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Using the “的” Modifier for Possessive Construction Posted by Stephen on Nov 17, 2011
As your Chinese improves, adding complexity to your sentences can be tricky without the proper grammar tools. Especially when it comes to descriptions of particular nouns. Fortunately for you, showing ownership or possession in Chinese is quite easy to do grammatically using the modifier “的”. The Chinese particle “de” (的) is most commonly used as a…