cecilia.ch Posted November 11, 2010 at 12:51 PM Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 at 12:51 PM Can you explain me the difference between 最 and 最为？ 谢谢！ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymoose Posted November 11, 2010 at 01:12 PM Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 at 01:12 PM As far as I know, no difference in meaning, but 最为 tends to be more formal, and usually used in written language. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted November 11, 2010 at 01:24 PM Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 at 01:24 PM nciku says that 最为 can only be used before disyllabic verbs and adjectives. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle1990 Posted November 11, 2010 at 04:45 PM Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 at 04:45 PM As far as I know, no difference in meaning, but 最为 tends to be more formal, and usually used in written language. It's definitely more formal, but you can hear it used a lot on formal news programs like CCTV 新闻联播. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofmann Posted November 11, 2010 at 05:41 PM Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 at 05:41 PM 最為 appears more tacky and sophistimacated to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarevok Posted November 12, 2010 at 07:32 AM Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 at 07:32 AM nciku says that 最为 can only be used before disyllabic verbs and adjectives. This is the most important difference in terms of syntax. You can compare it to 更为/更加, 较为, 甚为 and others, all of which share similar syntactic constraints. Frequent usage in formal/written language goes hand in hand with that, as there is a prosody-related tendency to use bisyllabic word pairs (forming a 2+2 structure) in writing, e.g. 最重要 often becomes 最为重要 in written Chinese... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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