第三十九天

[nnozomi]

是...的 to emphasize a specific point
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/The_%22shi..._de%22_construction_for_emphasizing_details

Let's stick to the easy half of this (as it strikes me) today and move on to the use in past questions tomorrow...

Guardian: (ugh, this is impossible to search for without knowing more about 正规表现 than I do)
我们都是从地星来的。(it's from Dixing that we all came)
让是你来指认现场的，不是让你去打先锋的 (it's to confirm the site that you're here, not to go strike the first blow) (?)
但是强大是要付出代价的 (but strength requires paying the price)

My practice:
我是坐地铁来的，走路太远了。
昨晚你原来是跟他去玩的！

Comments

[trobadora]

Hee! I'd definitely appreciate a native speaker's take.

Also, how am I going to explain the context behind this particular line to someone who hasn't seen Guardian, oh my goodness.

Haha, fun! :D

[nnozomi]

I asked my friend in Taiwan about 这条命是。。。 。 Her take was roughly the same as the ones here, that basically it is a version of the same 是~~~的, with the ~~~ content used as a clause to modify the 这条命 part. So...I think...essentially the same usage, but sometimes used for emphasis and sometimes just for description...? okay, 我放弃。

[trobadora]

Thanks muchly for asking, and thank you, that makes sense!

我放弃

Oh look, it's a word I know but characters I don't know at all! *flails*

[nnozomi]

放 I bet you do know, it's the same one in 放心，放开 and so on. 弃 is pretty new to me as well except in this compound...

[trobadora]

I know all these words (and 放手 and 放下 ...), but I'm completely blanking on the 放, 我不认识这个汉字. I seriously have no recollection of it at all even though I know I must have seen it before ... /o\