About the Modal Particle 嘛

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嘛ma, usually at the end of sentence, or short phrase.
1 Modal particle to mean “it is obviously”. exampl:
不会不要紧，边干边学嘛。
（búhuì bùyàojǐn 　bian ɡān bian xué ma ）
Its doesn’t matter if you know nothing about it, you can learn while you do.
你想去你就去嘛。
（nǐ xiǎnɡ qù nǐ jiù qù ma.）
If you like to go just go!

2 after a short phrase, pause function, means to attact people’s attention to the next phrase about coming out. example.
我嘛，就不去了。
（wǒ ma 　jiù búqù le. ）
and me, I won’t be there.

休假嘛，就是要好好玩。
(xiūjiǎ ma 　jiùshì yàohǎo hǎowán.)
Its holiday, should be fun!

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