Monday, 14 November 2016

usage - In the sentence 雑誌のほうは彼に渡してくれ, what does のほう mean?


I found this sentence in an anki deck, which gives its translation as "Give him the magazine" or something to that effect. I understand the rest of the sentence but I'm not sure why it has ほう in it, especially since I've mostly seen that word in the "x より y のほうが” construction.




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