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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 ...

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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
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 ...

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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
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 ...

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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
Comparing "buduan" and "buting"
... . Their uses are subtly different, so this article will help you distinguish when and where to use them. 不断 "不断" is usually placed before the verb ...

4 KB (649 words) - 10:18, 14 January 2021
The Secret Garden:《秘密花园》
... reclusive Uncle in his sprawling estate in Nanjing. She learns of a secret garden where no one has set foot in ten years. Li Ye finds the garden and ...

5 KB (618 words) - 08:58, 13 October 2017
Adjectival predicate sentence
AKA 形容词谓语句 (xíngróngcí wèiyǔ jù) 形容词性谓语句 (xíngróngcí-xìng wèiyǔ jù) A fancy name for a sentence where the predicate consists of an adjective.

185 bytes (28 words) - 01:26, 14 April 2014
Expressing "already" with just "le"
... or statement. Therefore, the following examples are in dialog format. A: 老板呢？Lǎobǎn ne? Where is the boss? B:他走了。Tā zǒu le.He has (already) left. A ...

4 KB (540 words) - 08:56, 21 April 2021
Beginner Guide to Chinese Grammar
... question words, commonly referred to as the "5 W's and 1 H" (what, where, who, when, why, how), to make questions. These question words also exist in ...

15 KB (2,464 words) - 16:44, 19 April 2020
Expressing "for" with "gei"
... in Chinese, but 给 is more informal than 为, and there are many cases where it's simply based on convention and general practice to decide to use one or ...

4 KB (596 words) - 08:55, 21 April 2021
Advanced "le" after an object
... When the Object is Short, Put 了 After the Object For these examples where the object is short, it sounds better to put 了 after the object. It's ...

12 KB (1,968 words) - 09:45, 18 January 2021
Editing for print
... using the " " H3 tag). Punctuation Make sure periods and commas are where they need to be. Use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma ...

3 KB (553 words) - 04:06, 25 April 2017