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Mandarin · Chapter 27 · Lesson 14 · Grammar primer

之: the written ancestor of 的

之一, 之间, 之后, 总之, and 三分之一. The classical linker that survives only in fixed shapes, why it is never productive, and how fractions read backwards to an English eye.

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