你来给我们评评理
Three people are discussing something. One of them asks another to be judge on who's right.
What's the exact meaning of 来 here? Since three of them are already together, it shouldn't be "come here".
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1What is "come" doing in "How come you are not an administrator after ten years with the company"? – Wayne Cheah Sep 03 '20 at 03:51
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2We seem to get a number of these questions: (1) The grammatical component of 来 in this sentence (2) 来 + verb to indicate future (3) What does 来 mean in 他想一切办法来验证这个理论 and 我们设了个陷阱来抓狐狸? (4) Can 来 be used as a 虚词? – Becky 李蓓 Sep 03 '20 at 03:57
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It IS "come here", however, "here" is not a position, it's a "context". For example, imaging the following conversation between three people in good relationship: A:今晚我们吃什么？(started a context about dinner) B:去XX吧，那里的YY贼好吃。 C said to B:还吃YY啊，你看你都胖成啥样了？(started a new sub-context about B's body). B look at C from head to to foot, and said to A:你来给我们评评理，看看到底谁胖？ In this example, A is definitely in a context he/she started, however, he/she is not in the sub-context about B's body, so B invite A to join/come/来 this sub-context go give an opinion. – LiuYan 刘研 Sep 05 '20 at 04:18
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The "来", "come" here acts as a form of "invitation", inviting someone to give an opinion or judgement.
Like, "come, give us your view on this matter"
Wayne Cheah
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"来“ in the sentence means that the speaker is asking the third person to join their conversation and resolve the problem.
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你来给我们评评理
You are right, we shouldn't take its literal meaning here "to come here".
来, here in the context, is used to invite for comment. Other examples: 让我来(let me do it or I will cover it). 你来(You do it). 不，我不来(No, I won't do it.)
This dictionary definition addresses it:
用在动词性短语前面，表示要做某事(preceding a verbal phrase, denoting will do something)
E. g. 我来说几句。
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1It might be a usage I'm not aware of. I thought the nuance of 来 as in 让我来 (let me do it), or 我来解决这个事 (I'll solve that matter) was mostly found in the first person （我）or with other causative verbs (让）. But the more I read the OP's sentence, the more I'm convinced it could just be as you say – blackgreen Sep 03 '20 at 23:12
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Person A or B calls person C to 'come' judging the issue because the issue is right in front of them
Notice, we use [来 + V] when the object is close to us, and we use [去 + V] when the object is not close to us
Example:
我來開車 (the car is close by or you are in the car)
我去開車 (the car is not near by or even insigh)
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I've seen the same question asked about 去 which is odd to me because this is exactly how we talk in english – 小奥利奥 Sep 03 '20 at 04:16
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@ 小奥利奥 are you referring to [this + n] 'and ['that + n] ; [go + v] and [come + v']? – Tang Ho Sep 03 '20 at 16:59
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