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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

永远

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yǒngyuǎn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Forever/fəˈrɛvər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我们将永远是好朋友。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adverb
  1. 1

    For all future time; for eternity.

    "They promised to be friends forever."
  2. 2

    Used to emphasize that something happens continually or constantly, often implying annoyance.

    "He is forever losing his keys."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'for ever', combining the preposition 'for' with the noun phrase 'ever' (from Old English 'ǣfre', meaning 'always'). Over centuries, the components fused orthographically to represent an unending duration of time.

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