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Comparing "yihou" and "de shihou"
... , 以后 (yǐhòu) and 的时候 (de shíhou) are often used. They can both be translated as the English word " when ," but their usage in Chinese must be kept ...

5 KB (783 words) - 09:26, 9 November 2020
Affirmative-negative question
... the question provides the listener with both possible answers: it's either "Verb" ... provides the listener with both possible answers: it's either ...

9 KB (1,407 words) - 08:55, 21 April 2021
Indicating recurrence of an action with "you"
... negation with "you" Comparing "zai" and "you" "Both A and B" with "you" "Both… and…" with "ji...you" Sources and further reading ...

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Comparing "yao" and "xiang"
... and 要 (yào) also meaning "going to (do something)." Followed by a Noun Both 要 (yào) and 想 (xiǎng) may be followed by nouns, but pay attention to ...

10 KB (1,565 words) - 08:57, 21 April 2021
Directional verbs "lai" and "qu"
... my home to eat dinner. Advanced Usage 来 (lái) and 去 (qù) can both be paired with other simple verbs to demonstrate the direction an action has ...

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Expressing "again" in the past with "you"
... It's almost Chinese New Year. We can get our red packets of money again See also "Both A and B" with "you" Comparing "zai" and "you ...

5 KB (771 words) - 01:53, 10 November 2020
Advanced "le" after an object
... having the baby. Usage of Double 了 In this case, 了 follows both the verb ''and'' the object. Emphasizing "Big Quantity" If another 了 is ...

12 KB (1,968 words) - 09:45, 18 January 2021
Expressing "each other" with "bici"
... : “彼此彼此”. It's a type of idiom that can mean "Everyone is the same" or "We are both the same". A:你的家真不错。Nǐ de jiā zhēn bùcuò.What a nice home you ...

5 KB (704 words) - 09:38, 14 January 2021
Acknowledgments-HSK
... of the print book. Sincere thanks to User:Parry Parry Cadwallader for making both the original wiki itself as well as the ebook version of the ...

4 KB (519 words) - 02:37, 24 June 2019
Ba-test
... sentence before you can understand its meaning. To demonstrate the difference, here's a sentence with both kinds of 把: 请你把那把伞拿给我。Qǐng nǐ bǎ ...

12 KB (1,773 words) - 03:08, 29 December 2021
Reading Tools
... getfirefox.com/ Mozilla Firefox or http://www.google.com/chrome Google Chrome (both available for PC and Mac), because not only are they the best ...

3 KB (427 words) - 02:41, 16 July 2021
Potential complement
... Affirmative Form Structurally, potential complements are closely related to both result complement s and direction complement s, so it helps ...

7 KB (977 words) - 04:50, 9 March 2019
Direction complement
... 回 is the verb, 来 is the complement, and 中国 is the object. You can't put both a complement and an object after a single verb, but it's OK to put just a ...

14 KB (2,058 words) - 03:11, 29 December 2020
The "shi... de" construction for emphasizing details
... by an object, 的 can go before ''or'' after the object. Both sentences are grammatically correct, but the first the sentence could be referring ...

16 KB (2,467 words) - 09:23, 20 April 2021
Editor instructions
... use http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki (the free web app both Wikipedia and this wiki are built on), as well as guidance on ongoing ...

14 KB (2,421 words) - 01:27, 22 July 2015
Basic sentence order
... longer predicate might be a verb with an object. A sentence with both a verb and an object is formed with this structure: Structure Subj ...

6 KB (1,007 words) - 09:20, 20 April 2021
Structure of numbers
... "200" is read as 二百 (èrbǎi), but often it is read as 两百 (liǎngbǎi). Both are OK. (This is an Comparing "er" and "liang" 二 (èr) vs. 两 (liǎng) issue ...

10 KB (1,641 words) - 09:22, 20 April 2021
Using the verb "jiao"
... , so it gets its own grammar point. Structure The verb 叫 (jiào) means both "to call" and "to be called." It's an easy way to give names, using ...

3 KB (489 words) - 09:21, 20 April 2021
Wanting to do something with "yao"
... to use the word 想 (xiǎng). These two words are largely interchangeable, and both can mean "to want." The small difference is that 要 (yào) is often ...

4 KB (575 words) - 08:57, 21 April 2021
Sandbox
... has been broken up with a div. So div and span are the same. They're both used to give properties to text, but span keeps things on the same line, and ...

690 bytes (115 words) - 03:54, 22 November 2018
Expressing existence in a place with "zai"
... "to be" with a Prepositions preposition . In Chinese, 在 (zài) can cover both of these roles. Subj. + 在 + Place Remember that you don't need another ...

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