(lǎo) - old, aged; always (prefix) in Mandarin
lǎoTraditional: 老
Translation
old, aged; always (prefix)
Word origin
老 means old or aged, and serves as a familiar prefix. It is a pictograph of an old person with long hair leaning on a stick.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- 老 (lǎo), a stooped elder with a stick
Stroke order
老
Examples
。
He is getting on in years.
，！
Old friend, long time no see!
。
He is always late.
。
We are old friends.
老 (lǎo) - old, aged; always (prefix).
Appears in 10 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 老.
Used in
Stories
(10)Grammar articles
(9)The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject
Mandarin Classifiers (Measure Words): 个, 本, 张, 只, 条, and the Rule That Every Counted Noun Needs One
The Mandarin Copula 是 (shì): To Be, and When to Leave It Out
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
The Two 了 in Mandarin: Completion 了 After the Verb vs Change-of-State 了 at the End
Mandarin Possession with 的 (de): My, Your, His, and When Mandarin Drops the Particle
The Three de in Mandarin: 的, 得, and 地 and How to Tell Them Apart
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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