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本来

běn lái

HSK 3 · word 1274 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

你本来可以做的。

nǐ běn lái kě yǐ zuò de

You could have done it.

Characters in 本来

root or original plus , to come. Coming from the root, hence originally — and it implies things have changed.

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