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忙 in Context

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The Character You Just Learned is Also a Common Word!

Usage 1 - "to be busy with": 

Sentence:

你在忙什么?

English:

What are you doing?


Usage 2 - "busy":

Sentence

我最近简直太忙了!

English:

I've been so busy lately.

Top-Down Words:

简直 jiǎnzhí - simply (adv.)



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Comments   2

Jason Pon

We know both characters in 简直; any reason why this hasn't been introduced as a vocab word?

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Mandarin Blueprint

Because 简直 is outside the top-1000 most frequent words, but it comes up in one of the "Vocab Boost" lessons in the intermediate course.

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