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刚、刚刚 and 刚才: just and just now
Original Chinese study material with English explanations. Simplified Chinese with pinyin; beginner, intermediate and advanced are editorial difficulty labels.
刚 and 刚刚 (gānggāng) are adverbs meaning just or only just. 刚才 (gāngcái) is a time noun meaning a short time ago and can appear as the topic of a sentence.
我刚到家。
Wǒ gāng dào jiā.
I have just arrived home.
刚才你在哪里？
Gāngcái nǐ zài nǎlǐ?
Where were you just now?
刚 can be relative to a past reference point. 刚才 normally refers to a short time before now.
Try it
Choose a natural sentence meaning “I have just finished.”
- 我刚做完。
- 我做刚完。
- 刚我完做。
Answer and explanation
我刚做完。. 刚 precedes the verb phrase 做完.