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Feeling Sick 生病

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IFinished Doing My Homework, but the Direct Translation Is Actually I Finished Doing My Homework.

The direct translation of this sentence is supposed to be bah. Book, put on the table. But here with a bah in the sentence, they are sort of focusing on the results or the influence of the action. And so that's why you sort of move the object up front and then following with the verb. Like nih bah yao chur. Another example would be bah chur fang zai chur chur.

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