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06-30-2011, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by languagehacker View Post
You seem to interpret ただ as "simply." Someone else said that ただ before a verb is used to add emphasis. They interpreted it like this:

What do you think?
I cannot say what I did is very different. By adding "simply", I actually meant to emphasize the action.


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