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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A grammatical construction in Mandarin Chinese, SUBJ-把-OBJ-VERB, or any analogous constructions in other Chinese lects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: disposal construction, executive construction, pre-transitive construction, causative construction
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Mandarin 把 (bǎ) + construction.
