No. 113 in Chinese
每
"Each" or "every."
In a sentence
每个人都需要休息。
Everyone needs to rest.
In this sentence, '每' is used as a pronoun meaning 'every' to indicate each individual in a group.
我每周工作五天。
I work five days every week.
Here, '每' is used as a determiner meaning 'every' to describe the frequency of an event happening in a given period.
天气在每次下雨后变得很清新。
The weather becomes very fresh after every rain.
In this sentence, '每' is part of an adverbial phrase '每次' meaning 'every time', indicating repetition in a temporal context.
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