Results found with the tag 'grammar' , 326 articles in total.
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[Grammar]
Chinese grammar: Potential complement 不动bu dong
This is a potential complement that expresses you "can't do something." Don't confuse it with 不懂 as explained in The "-bu dong" (don't understand) Potential Complement.
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Chinese grammar: Positive and negative potential complements
Verbs can take potential complements that indicate whether or not the action is actually possible. They are useful in Chinese to say if an action can take place.
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Chinese grammar: Direction complement
A direction complement is a verbal complement that's used, you guessed it, to describe the direction of a verb.
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Chinese grammar: 完-wan result complement
Of all the result complements in Chinese, this one is one of the most satisfying to use, since it implies "finishing" something. On it's own, 完 (wán) means "to finish" or "complete."
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Chinese grammar: Descriptive complements
In this article, we take a look at how we use 得 (de) to help describe an action. It is one of the characters that often gets confused with 的 and 地, since they could be pronounced as a neutral
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Chinese grammar: Complements with 到dao, 给gei and 在zai
One of the cool features of Chinese is complements, and in this article we introduce a few of them in Chinese gramamr.
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Chinese grammar: If…, then… with 如果ruguo…,就 jiu…
One of the benefits of Chinese is that the grammar is often very logical and concise. In this article, we look at the "如果,就" (rúguǒ, jiù) structure. We will also look at uses "
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Chinese grammar: Expressing actions in progress (full form)
You may have learned that 在 (zài) and 正在 (zhèngzài) can be used before verbs to express that an action is ongoing or in progress in Chinese grammar.
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Chinese grammar: Separable verb
"Separable verbs," called 离合词 (líhécí) in Chinese, get their name from their ability to "separate" into two parts (a verb part and an object part), with other words in between. Separable ve
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Chinese grammar: Expressing duration of inaction
Saying how long you have done something is pretty simple in Chinese. Saying how long you have not done something is just as easy.
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Chinese grammar: Simultaneous tasks with 一边yibian
Multitasking is vital to life in the modern world (most likely you are reading this article on a separate tab among many in your browser!), therefore it would make sense to learn a way to express
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Chinese grammar: Doing something more with 多duo
In China, you often hear you should do this or that more (eat more, drink more water, wear more warm clothing etc.), and they often use the word 多 (duō).
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Chinese grammar: "Not often" with 不怎么bu zenme
不怎么 (bùzěnme) seems to mean "not how", but it actually can mean "not often" when used together with a verb.
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Chinese grammar: Doing something less with 少shao
Often heard when scolding or giving advice (like when parents talk to children) is 少 (shǎo) in Chinese grammar, which can mean "to do less of something."
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Chinese grammar:Not at all一点儿也/都不
Sometimes we may want to say something is "not even the least bit. . ." For example, we might say in English: "I am not at all hungry." In Chinese, we can use 一点也不 or 一点都不 to express "not
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Chinese grammar: Thanks to somebody with 多亏duokui
“多亏” (duōkuī) can be translated as "thanks to" and is used to express that, due to somebody's help, a negative result has been averted.
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Chinese grammar: Appearance with 看起来kanqilai
One of the most common ways to express "it looks like" is to use 看起来 (kànqǐlái). This is what we would use if we wanted to express something like "it seems it's hot outside."
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Chinese grammar:Basic comparisons with 不比bu bi
Often Chinese speakers will say something (or someone!) is not as good/strong/smart as something else. This is one the grammar patterns they use.
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Chinese grammar:Causative verbs
Causative verbs are verbs that cause people to do things, surprisingly enough. In English, these are verbs like "make", "have" and "get", as in "get Billy to eat dinner." The "get" is the causati
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Chinese grammar: Mistakenly think that 以为
We often have mistaken beliefs about various topics. With this article, we learn how to express them in Chinese!