也

yě

Radical乙

Strokes3

HSK 1

Definitions

adv

part

(used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X)
(literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]

Examples

孔子，鲁人也

kǒngzǐ, lǔ rén yě

Confucius was a person from Lu.

非不能也，是不为也。

fēi bù néng yě, shì bù wéi yě.

It's not that one cannot do it, but that one chooses not to do it.

何也？

hé yě?

Why is that? / What is the reason?

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