跟 meaning from
Hi, can you help me?

Sentence: 我们的出产不够，所以得跟外国买。
My translation: "Our produce isn’t big enough, so we have to buy from other countries."

I think here 跟 implies the meaning of "from", but I can’t find it in any dictionary.

I only know 跟 to have the following meanings:

1) with
2) and
3) to follow
..... 4) from(?)

What’s up with 跟 in that sentence? Does it mean "from"? Why not use 从? Any help is much appreciated. :)

Question

跟 meaning from
Hi, can you help me?

Sentence: 我们的出产不够，所以得跟外国买。
My translation: "Our produce isn’t big enough, so we have to buy from other countries."

I think here 跟 implies the meaning of "from",  but I can’t find it in any dictionary.

I only know 跟 to have the following meanings:

1) with
2) and
3) to follow
..... 4) from(?)

What’s up with 跟 in that sentence? Does it mean "from"? Why not use 从? Any help is much appreciated. :)

Answer

In this sentence,I think that 跟 is followed by the “object” of the verb.You can also use 从 or 向 here,but 跟 is right too .
For example,“跟你学” means “learn from you” ,“you ” is the object of “learn”.
I hope that will help you to understand.
By the way ,Chinese is very flexible，try to understand it in certain context.

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“得”这字要读成“dei3”，意思是“应该、必须、不得不”等等含义，因此是个副词，所以，“跟”在这里是动词，并不是介词，所以，这句话完全正确，作者并没有说错。汉语汉语的介词全部来自动词，因此，很多时候会重新用为动词。而英语和汉语不同，所以，译成英语就变成了介词。无论是“向”、“从”都可以表达为动词，也就是哪怕这里说成”得从/向国外卖“那么这里的”从、向“就是动词，而不是介词。如果说成“得和外国买”，这里的”和“也是动词，而不是连词。因为”得“是副词，它不可能去修饰介词与连词。

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Here 跟 means "through".  Actually the literal meaning is "to follow", to mean "with".

Another example, without context, "跟我买" can either mean "follow me to buy" or "buy FOR me".

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you are right,“跟”means"from"in this sentence,but in china,it usually used in spoken language.     use从is the right way.   it’s the writer’s wrong