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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:
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."
Mandarin Blueprint
Exactly, since the speaker already said 晚, 就 wouldn't make sense.
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