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下班 in Context

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下班

Usage 1 - " to get off work, clock out": 

*Sentence

我还有30分钟下班。

English:

I still have 30 minutes until I get off work.


Sentence

下班后快回家。 

English:

After getting off work quickly come home. 

Top-Down Words:

家 jiā - home, one’s home


Sentence

我每天很晚才下班。  

English:

I get off work quite late every day.

Top-Down Words:

晚 wǎn - late



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Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Ric Santos

Sentence # 3. Could 才 be giving a meaning that Each day only when it is very late at night does he get off work. ?

Mandarin Blueprint

It indicates that, from the speaker’s perspective, the time getting off work is *late*. If you switched 才 with 就 jiù, then it would *early* from the speaker’s perspective.

MB Team

Here's the link to where Phil and Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiYrfenj6YQ&t=2324s

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Micaela Ellison

In your response to Ric above, you said 才 could be switched with 就 to indicate getting off work early from the speaker's perspective. That makes sense for the example in the podcast which uses a specific time (八点). But in the Anki sentence here:

我每天很晚才下班

I assume 就 can not replace 才 because the speaker is explicitly stating his/her perspective that the time is "very late."

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Mandarin Blueprint

Exactly, since the speaker already said 晚, 就 wouldn't make sense.

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MB Team

This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5u5g-VtJo8&t=2661s

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