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ba

HSK 1 · word 5 of 3,000

Meaning

How it's used

Softens a sentence into a suggestion or a guess. 我们走吧 is "let's go" rather than "we go". 你是老师吧? is "you're a teacher, right?" — you think so and want confirmation, unlike , which is a genuine question.

Example sentence

我们走吧。

wǒmen zǒu ba.

Let's go.

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