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Help with a sentence pattern

balsa   April 10th, 2013 4:39p.m.

For the life of me, I can't find the english translation for 「就算沒有……也會……」

Would anyone care to take a stab at it?
Thanks.

蓓蕾   April 10th, 2013 8:00p.m.

http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22Even_if…%22_with_%22jiusuan%22

Sound like it could mean "Even if there isn't...it will still..." or "Even if that hasn't happened...it will still..."

Haven't seen that pattern before. Did you get it from a sentence in a text? That would help interpretation.

Alan   April 10th, 2013 10:23p.m.

Yeah I think that's correct, I found this example:

就算没有太阳，向日葵也会默默开放。 Even without the sun, sunflowers will still silently bloom.

The forum mangled your link a bit, this one will work better: http://tinyurl.com/even-if-jiusuan

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