HSK 7–9 grammar · particle
矣
矣 — classical final particle
Pattern
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( ) can be left out · other words may come before, between and after
How it works
矣 ends a sentence in classical Chinese much as 了 does today, marking that a situation has come about. Modern learners meet it only in quotations, proverbs and deliberately archaic style — recognise it rather than produce it.
Examples
由来久矣。
Yóulái jiǔ yǐ.
It has been so for a long time.
大势去矣。
Dàshì qù yǐ.
The tide has turned against us.
Related
See it in a story
In the app, 矣 is underlined wherever it appears in the stories you read, and practised with sentences from them. Free.