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means ”only” in the ”at least”/”as long as only” way:
”Even children know this.”
”Even Confucius was not free of flaws.”
”As long as (you) (merely) have money, (you) can (just) take it easy.”
This particle is related to in the similar way that and are
related, and is followed by a negative to express a ”not even” construction:
”(I) cannot even write a leĴer to (my) satisfaction.”
This particle is considered rather literary.
This particle, while a combination of + , doesn’t actually act as a simi-
larity marker as you might expect, but instead is actually used to stress the
preceding noun or noun phrase in a sentence:
”It’s (exactly) as you say.”
This particle comes after
constructions.
