Hi another question! I answered “ASAP” for this, and it says it is wrong.
But then in the example sentence it says:
This kind of confuses me. I think the reason is that for it to mean ASAP it needs the に particle? Is that correct?
Hi another question! I answered “ASAP” for this, and it says it is wrong.
But then in the example sentence it says:
This kind of confuses me. I think the reason is that for it to mean ASAP it needs the に particle? Is that correct?
You have to write the primary meaning or one of the alternative meanings instead of acronyms for it to accept your answer
You can add it as a user synonym if you want, and then it will be accepted. Might be worth pinging the @Mods so they can decide if this sounds like a worthwhile addition
That’s an option, but I don’t want to add it if it’s incorrect, so I wanted to be sure.
I’m not knowledgeable enough to know what に is doing here, but I think it’s a particle, and not necessarily part of the word 早々.
Actually, I’ve just found in the Genki 1 textbook that に can be used for showing the time at which an event takes place. So the time the withdrawing is happening is 早々, but “as soon as” isn’t really a time, so maybe it becomes “as soon as possible” to be more natural. Hopefully I’ve interpreted that correctly. Anyway, I would personally just stick to trying to learn it as “as soon as” because I don’t think it’s always going to mean as soon as possible. Like if the sentence was “as soon as I get home” wouldn’t be as soon as possible.
Actually, に can just be used to form adverbs, which is what’s happening here. Here’s some other examples:
本当に
静かに
単に
急に
Thanks for the ping!
I’m going to check with the team to see if we’d like to add this or not.
Update: We added “ASAP” and “As Soon As Possible” to the allow list and made some slight changes to the collocations. Thanks again for bringing this up.
Ah okay cool, good to know.
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