的 de
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de
particle
possessive particle
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Structural Particle 结构助词
Notes: In this use 的 indicates the the item following belongs to the item preceding. It is required in most cases where a possessive relationship is intended (Ho 2002, '的' 1). For example, 政府的工作 'the government's work' (Xinhua Net, 2015-12-23). 的 is the most frequent word in the Beijing Language Institute's 1985 frequency wordlist (CC-CEDICT '的'; Guoyu '的' particle 1; Ho 2002, '的'). -
de
particle
structural particle
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Structural Particle 结构助词
Notes: In this usage, 的 modifies an adjective with more than one syllable to indicate an attributive relationship (Ho 2002, '的' 2; Li Shaoqi, 2003, pp. 419-420). For example, 她低声的说 She said in a low voice (Lao She, 2003, p. 176). 的 is used after reduplicated one syllable adjectives that modify a noun. In addition, 的 is also used in an attributive prepositional prhase that modifies a noun. For example, 这没有什么对不起人的地方。 'There is nothing to be sorry about here.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 174) 的 is used after a verb that modifies a noun (CC-CEDICT '的'; Guoyu '的' particle 1). -
de
particle
complement
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Structural Particle 结构助词
Notes: In this usage, 的 acts as a complement or as a sentence final. For example, 工作是充分肯定的 'the work was abundantly confirmed.' (Li Shaoqi, 2003, pp. 420-421; CC-CEDICT '的'; Guoyu '的' particle 2). -
de
particle
a substitute for something already referred to
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Structural Particle 结构助词
Notes: In this usage, 的 acts as a substitute for something referred to earlier or understood. For example, 黑的或白的？ 'A black one or a white one?' (Li Shaoqi, 2003, p. 421) -
dí
adverb
indeed; really
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '的'; Guoyu '的' dí adv)
Contained in
- 的哥 male taxi driver; cabbie
- 好样的(好樣的) a good person
- 强扭的瓜不甜(強扭的瓜不甜) if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist)
- 有的没的(有的沒的) trivial (matters); triviality; nonsense; rubbish
- 怎的 what for; why; how
- 去你的 get along with you!
- 神的儿子(神的兒子) the Son of God
- 一条绳上的蚂蚱(一條繩上的螞蚱) grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string; people who are in it together for better or worse; people who will sink or swim together
- 小的 small; young [child] ; I ; a servant
- 扶不起的阿斗 weak and inept person; hopeless case
- 一矢中的 to hit the target with a single shot; to say something spot on
- 单细胞的微生物(單細胞的微生物) a single-celled microorganism
- 哪儿的话(哪兒的話) not at all (humble expression denying compliment); don't mention it
- 喵的 drat; frick
- 假的 bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phoney
- 摩托车的士(摩托車的士) motorcycle taxi
- 有机的(有機的) organic
- 西式的餐点(西式的餐點) Western style dishes
- 哀的美敦书(哀的美敦書) ultimatum
- 真有你的 You're really quite something!; You're just amazing!
- 瘦死的骆驼比马大(瘦死的駱駝比馬大) even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse; even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
- 吃人家的嘴软，拿人家的手短(吃人家的嘴軟，拿人家的手短) the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach
- 集中的策略 focus strategy
- 目的地 a destination
- 走自己的路，让人家去说(走自己的路，讓人家去說) Go your own way, let others say what they like. (popular modern cliche) / Do it my way.
- 中的 to hit the target; to hit the nail on the head
- 无的放矢(無的放矢) to shoot without aiming; to speak without thinking
- 工人和农民的联盟(工人和農民的聯盟) worker-peasant alliance
- 泼出去的水(潑出去的水) spilt water; something that can not be retrieved; spilt milk
- 铺的(鋪的) suddenly
- 秘密的事(祕密的事) a secret matter
- 新的基础(新的基礎) a new basis
- 天杀的(天殺的) Goddam!; goddamn; wretched
- 撑死胆大的，饿死胆小的(撐死膽大的，餓死膽小的) fullness for the bold, famine for the timid
- 寻的(尋的) homing; target-seeking
- 端的 really; after all; details; particulars
- 男的 man
- 永不生锈的螺丝钉(永不生銹的螺絲釘) a screw that never rusts — sb who selflessly and wholeheartedly serves the Communist Party, like Lei Feng 雷锋, to whom the metaphor is attributed
- 相加性的 additive
- 缔结的契约(締結的契約) a completed agreement
- 目的论(目的論) teleology
- 政治的斗争(政治的鬥爭) political struggle
- 够受的(夠受的) to be quite an ordeal; to be hard to bear
- 有的时候(有的時候) sometimes; at times
- 家的 wife ; belonging to the family
- 皇帝的新衣 the Emperor's new clothes (i.e. naked)
Also contained in
美的 、 权力的游戏 、 雅典的泰门 、 巴尔的摩 、 的里雅斯特
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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