地
Meaning
- -ly
- structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
Measure word
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How it's used
Turns a description into an adverb, before the verb: 慢慢地走 (walk slowly), 高兴地说 (say happily). Compare 得, which comes *after* the verb to judge the result. 地 says how you set out to do it; 得 says how it went.
Example sentence
安静地听！
Listen quietly!
Words containing 地
- 地点 dì diǎn place
- 地方 dì fang place; location; area; space; territory
- 地上 dì shang on the ground
- 地图 dì tú map
- 草地 cǎo dì lawn
- 地球 dì qiú the earth
- 地铁 dì tiě underground railway; subway
- 地铁站 dì tiě zhàn subway station
- 外地 wài dì parts of the country other than where one is
- 当地 dāng dì local
- 地区 dì qū region; area (informal or geographical term)
- 各地 gè dì in all parts of (a country)
- 地面 dì miàn floor
- 地位 dì wèi position
- 地下 dì xià underground
- 地址 dì zhǐ address
- 陆地 lù dì dry land (as opposed to the sea)
- 土地 tǔ dì land