请拾到者送到。。。when to use zhě3

[weilian]

Hey ya'll,

请拾到者送到 apartment number...

I've been reviewing my textbook and I came across zhě which only holds the definition "-er, -or" in Boya Chinese II.

[magores]

In this case, 者 is part of the word 拾到者

拾到 = pick up

拾到者 = the person who picked up

[floatingmoon]

者can mean a "person" (it can have other meaning). Common used when something apply to a person or relating something to a person

請勿....違例者....

...長者...

非法入境者

when 者 don't just mean about a person

或者，再者，後者

p.s.

this also works too

请拾到者送“回“

If you found....please "return" to.....

[skylee]

another common example - 違者法辦 - offenders will be prosecuted

[weilian]

Thank ya'll a bunch, the translation was just so daft in my book.

A next question that's been pressing. 搞 versus 做 and 摆 versus 放

[mira_mio]

者 means "the person who...." or "the one(not necessarily person)"

it is placed in the end of the word.

eg), 作者("author", the person who wrote this) "作者"is a fixed word though. you can find it in a dictionary

However 者can be used in a flexible way with other characters to form words/phrases. like the example you gave--拾到者, which is not likely to be found in dictionaries.

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"搞" "做" both mean "do", both used very widely in many different ways. They are close in meaning...

The difference i can think of is that "搞"has the meaning of "create", or "make", in both good and bad ways. Good as in "搞建设"(to construct), "搞个聚会" (to organise a party). Bad as in "搞破坏"(to damage, sabotage)

while "做" can not replace 搞 in those phrases.

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"摆" has the meaning of "posing" while "放" simply means "to put"... I think.