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坐地铁的话不用担心堵车。
What does 话 mean here?
坐地铁的话不用担心堵车。
What does 话 mean here?
What does 话 mean here?
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It is not 话 but 的话. 的话means "if". If you take the subway, you'll not have to worry about traffic jam.
- Simplified Chinese (China)
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
的话 in spoken Chinese is an auxiliary phrase that sometimes appears together with 如果, as in 如果...的话, and basically means “if”.
Note that both 如果 and 的话 are optional/implied in this sentence structure, so your sentence could be written as:
如果坐地铁的话不用担心堵车
如果坐地铁不用担心堵车
坐地铁的话不用担心堵车
坐地铁不用担心堵车
They pretty much mean the same thing.
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@lafilleT Oh! So even both are not used, the sentence can still have the meaning??
My book says
骑自行车可以锻炼身体。
and I can change it to
如果骑自行车的话可以锻炼身体。
????Make sense?
My book says
骑自行车可以锻炼身体。
and I can change it to
如果骑自行车的话可以锻炼身体。
????Make sense?
- Simplified Chinese (China)
@amy_wantsicecream Yes and no. You can add 如果...的话 in this case and people will still be able to understand you, but their meanings are actually slightly different.
骑自行车可以锻炼身体 is a complete statement in and of itself, while 如果骑自行车的话可以锻炼身体 kind of implies a comparison between 骑自行车 and something else. If I were to read it, I’d probably expect something like “别开车了，我们可以骑自行车” before it.
It’s all about the context.
- Korean
@lafilleT This is so tricky😱😱😱
I guess I need more practice in speaking 😂 Anyways thanks so much for your reply! It really helped
I guess I need more practice in speaking 😂 Anyways thanks so much for your reply! It really helped
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