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公里 in Context

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A NEW WORD HAS BEEN UNLOCKED
公里

Usage 1 - "kilometer": 

*Sentence:

从这里到图书馆,一共有十公里。

English:

It's ten kilometers from here to the library.

Top-Down Words:

图书馆 túshūguǎn - library 


Sentence:

我走了一公里路。

English:

I walked for a kilometer.

Top-Down Words:

路 lù - road, path, way (in this example, this is the word “走路” which is a Verb-What construction, and the majority of Verb-What constructions can be separated. Walk 走,walk what? Walk the road 走路路. Walk the one-kilometer long road 走一公里路。Walked the one-kilometer long road 走了一公里路。)



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Comment   1

Jason Pon

Thanks for that explanation above on 路 & the reminder about the separation of the Verb-What words.

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