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#361 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

just now, a moment ago

Examples

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I have just arrived in the town.

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He has just left the house.

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She has just told me the truth.

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We have just finished our work.

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The letter has just come.

points backwards and only backwards: it marks something finished a moment ago, so it lives with the past tense and never with -os. That is the tidy half. The trap is , which learners reach for because English "just" covers both: means immediately and leans forward, . Keep them apart and you get the English present perfect for free, since is exactly "I have just finished". Like , and , it is a primitive adverb ending in --shaped stubbornness, so it never takes -e and never inflects.

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This word is part of lesson 8.