Mandarin · Chapter 23 · Lesson 15 · Grammar primer
者 as a nominaliser
作者, 读者, 记者: the suffix that turns a verb into the person who does it. Why it is not productive in speech, how to read it in a headline, and the set words it has already frozen into.
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