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<h1>Listing things with "a"</h1>


<p>When listing nouns belonging to a certain category, 啊 (a) can be added to the end of each noun to give an informal feeling a bit like saying "you know, that kind of thing" after a list of things.
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<h2>Contents</h2>

  
<div class="contents"><ul><li><span style="font-size: 20px;">1 Structure </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">2 Examples </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">3 See also </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">4 Sources and Further Reading</span><br/></li>
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<h3>Structure</h3>

<div class="deux">A 啊， B 啊， C 啊⋯⋯</div>

<h3>Examples</h3>

<div class="exemple"><ul><li><span style="font-size: 20px;">我们 什么 零食 都 有，花生 啊，瓜子 啊，薯片 啊，你 随便 吃 吧。
We have all sorts of snacks: peanuts, roasted seeds, chips, go ahead and eat whatever you want. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">椅子 啊，桌子 啊，电脑 啊 什么的 都 买 好 了，现在 办公室 只 差 招 员工 了！
Chairs, tables, computers, and so one have all been bough. Now the office only needs to hire workers! </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">《发展 汉语》 啊， 《实用 汉语 课本》 啊，我 都 学 过，没 用！
"Developing Chinese" and "The Practical Chinese Reader," we've studied both of them, they won't help.</span><br/></li>
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<p>As in the first example, the list can be followed by 什么的, but is not generally followed by 等 as this feels too formal.</p>

<h3>See also</h3>

<div class="See-also"><ul><li><span style="font-size: 20px;">Ending a Non-Exhaustive List with "shenme de" </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">Sentence-final interjection "a"</span><br/></li>
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<h3>Sources and Further Reading
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<div class="See-also"><ul><li><span style="font-size: 20px;">现代汉语八百词 (pp. 47) →buy</span><br/></li>
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