No. 136 in Chinese
增加
"Increase" or "add."
In a sentence
公司的利润增加了。
The company's profits increased.
Here, '增加' is used as a verb to indicate a numeric or measurable growth, treated as an intransitive verb.
我们需要增加库存以满足需求。
We need to increase the inventory to meet the demand.
In this sentence, '增加' serves as a verb to explain the action of adding or enhancing amounts, used transitively with an object.
人口的快速增加给城市带来了压力。
The rapid increase in population has put pressure on the city.
'增加' here functions as a noun embedded in the phrase to denote the result or phenomenon of increase.
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