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HSK 2 grammar · pattern

就

就 — emphatic "exactly / precisely"

Pattern

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for emphasis
( ) can be left out · other words may come before, between and after

How it works

就 can also stress that something is exactly the case — "precisely", "just", "the very one". Here 就 highlights the word right after it instead of linking two events.

Examples

我就是老师。
Wǒ jiù shì lǎoshī.
I am the teacher (that very person).
他就在这儿。
Tā jiù zài zhèr.
He's right here.
我就要这个。
Wǒ jiù yào zhège.
This is exactly the one I want.

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See it in a story

In the app, 就 is underlined wherever it appears in the stories you read, and practised with sentences from them. Free.