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How to Say ‘Go ahead and take it!’ in Traditional Chinese

拍吧!

pāi ba

[pāi ba]

💬 Usage Tip: 吧 after a verb turns it into a friendly go-ahead or suggestion rather than an order. Other examples are 吃吧 "go ahead and eat" and 走吧 "let's go".

Phrase Breakdown

拍

pāi

[pāi]

to take (a photo)

Used with photos to mean shooting a picture.

Example

你幫我拍一下。

Take a picture for me.

吧

ba

[ba]

(suggestion particle)

Sentence-final particle making a suggestion, like 'let's'.

Example

我們走吧。

Let's go.

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