奴 (nú) — (bound form) slave, servant; (bound form) to enslave, treat as a slave
Definition
Bound morpheme for 'slave/servant' or 'to enslave' (as in 奴隶 'slave', 农奴 'serf', 奴役 'to enslave'). It never stands alone — pair it with a suffix like 隶 or 役 to form a noun or verb.
bound form
(bound form) slaveservant(bound form) to enslavetreat as a slave
Examples
- 。Tā guò qù shì yì míng nú lì.He was a slave in the past.
- 。nú Yì tā rén shì jí bú dào dé de xíng wéi.Enslaving others is an extremely immoral act.
- 。Lì shǐ shàng céng bào fā guò duō cì nóng nú qǐ yì.There have been many serf uprisings in history.
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