05-09-2017, 05:10 PM
(05-09-2017, 09:55 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
I had a quick look around. Apart from reduplication of nouns, it is perhaps even more frequently used for adjectives, and the effect is of reducing the quality of the adjective a bit.
ngao = lonely. ngao-ngao = feeling a bit lonely.
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I found this very interesting since it's the opposite of what usually happens in western languages, a duplicated word (whether noun or adjective) tends to intensify rather than diminish.