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[Hakkar]

Hello everyone. What does 者 mean in this context? I literally have no clue. Thanks.


人口问题是“国之大者”，生育政策调整完善关系千家万户。生还是不生？生几个？并非一个能简单回答的问题。影响家庭做出选择的，既有家庭成员的实际考量，也受经济社会环境种种因素的影响。

 

[Lamb67]

It denotes what the important issue is for the country 😋

 

[hx1997]

It is a pronoun inherited from Classical Chinese and means "the thing/person that ...". 国之大者 may be an adaptation from 国之大事，在祀与戎 and in that case it would mean "the big (important) thing for a country".

 

[SuperXW]

者：
(3) 用在形容词、动词、动词词组或主谓词组之后，组成“者”字结构，用以指代人、事、物

国之大者 = 国家的大事