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Expressing "among" with "dangzhong"
... " 其中 (qízhōng) . However, 其中 means something more like "among the aforementioned," where as 当中 simply means "among." Furthermore 其中 cannot be used in ...

4 KB (586 words) - 07:03, 11 December 2020
Emphasizing the doer of an action with "you"
... is the doer or initiator of an action, a bit like in English where we might say: "Andy ''is the one who...." Structure Topic + 由 + Person + Verb ...

3 KB (519 words) - 05:46, 6 December 2020
Expressing "let alone" with "hekuang"
... 何况 to add further emphasis. 何况 can be used in two ways, the first of which where 何况 is used to emphasize that if A is like this, then B must be even ...

5 KB (788 words) - 02:07, 7 April 2021
Expressing "after all" with "bijing"
... bìjìng) can be used to emphasize a reason or characteristic, and is like "after all" where you might say, "he is, after all, only a child." 毕竟 is used ...

5 KB (764 words) - 09:17, 14 January 2021
Softening the tone of questions with "ne"
... ?I wonder whose pen this is? 他去哪儿了呢？Tā qù nǎr le ne?I wonder where he's going? 怎么会呢？Zěnme huì ne?How could that be? In the previous examples ...

6 KB (848 words) - 09:47, 18 January 2021
Reference:Common Chinese Patterns 330 (汉语常用格式330例)
... learners because there is a large number of grammatical phenomena in the language where some words are always used together with others, forming a set ...

8 KB (328 words) - 02:15, 25 October 2017
Expressing "let alone" with "bie shuo"
... 别说 + A ，连 / 就是+ B + 也 / 都 + Verb This is similar to English where we might say: "don't think about preparing a banquet, you can't even make instant ...

4 KB (666 words) - 04:23, 18 January 2021
Reference:卓越汉语－公司实战篇
... sb./sth. V is... 在...的今天 (...today), when...; in modern society where... Expressing "on the contrary" with "fan'er" (不但不/没)...反而 instead ...

9 KB (944 words) - 08:22, 13 March 2019
Modal particle "ne"
... 里了？Wǒ zhǎo le nǐ hěn jiǔ ne, nǐ qù nǎlǐ le?I looked for you for quite a while. Where did you go? 雨还很大呢，我们不要出去了。Yǔ hái hěn dàne, wǒmen bùyào ...

3 KB (497 words) - 08:57, 21 April 2021
Expressing completion with "le"
... le I found it Putting 了 After a Verb with an Object Here is where things start to get slightly more complicated. If the verb has an object, 了 ...

8 KB (1,185 words) - 09:22, 20 April 2021
Yes-no questions with "ma"
... "no."Bù lái.No, I won't come. Finally, a mix of the two ways to answer, where one person is asking questions of two different people. A:你喜欢中国菜吗 ...

9 KB (1,438 words) - 09:20, 20 April 2021
Reference:Chinese: An Essential Grammar, Second Edition
... of le Le as both sentence particle and aspect marker Cases where sentence le is not used Ultimate versatility of sentence le Questions ...

12 KB (1,482 words) - 02:27, 25 October 2017
Comparing "li" and "cong"
... In Chinese, however, their meanings are different. 从 is used in cases where the subject's position relative to a fixed location changes. 离 expresses a ...

6 KB (825 words) - 04:36, 30 November 2018
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... Number ranges Row numbers may be from 1 to 80 (for situations where more than 80 rows are required, see Embedding Embedding below). To allow ...

18 KB (2,490 words) - 02:23, 12 June 2012
Expressing "just now" with "gangcai"
... shéi lái le? Who came just now? 刚才你去哪儿了？Gāngcái nǐ qù nǎr le? Where did you go just now? 刚才我去洗手间了。Gāngcái wǒ qù xǐshǒujiān le.I just went ...

3 KB (519 words) - 10:00, 2 April 2019
Comparing "zai" and "you"
... 再 and 又 Have Other Uses as Well The comparisons above are the cases where 又 and 再 are most easily confused. This wiki also has other uses of both ...

10 KB (1,603 words) - 07:24, 19 January 2021
Comparing "youdian" and "yidian"
... Websites Chinesegrammar.info: http://chinesegrammar.info/general/yi-dianr-placement/ Where to place 一点儿 (yī diǎnr) in a sentence Category ...

7 KB (1,036 words) - 07:52, 14 May 2019
Comparing "guanyu" and "duiyu"
... Xīnnián Fàngjià de TōngzhīA Notification Regarding New Year Holidays Situations Where 关于 and 对于 Are Interchangeable When the point emphasized ...

6 KB (881 words) - 02:44, 17 December 2020
"Could it be that" with "qibushi"
... ," and it is always used in a rhetorical question. Structure Just insert 岂不是 where you feel that "could it be that" or "isnt it." 岂不是 is usually ...

1 KB (112 words) - 09:00, 10 November 2020
Expressing that something has already happened with "laizhe"
... 来着？Who sang that song again? 我们上次说周末去哪儿玩来着？Where is it that we said we are going to this weekend? Special phrase "I told you so" with 来着 ...

3 KB (397 words) - 03:47, 21 November 2017
Expressing location with "zai... shang / xia / li"
... ends of these place names. 在 (zài) with Specific Locations To show where an object is in relation to another object, make a "sandwich" starting ...

7 KB (1,067 words) - 04:54, 9 March 2019