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Expressing "before" and "after" with "zhiqian" and "zhihou"
... between the two pairs is that 之前/之后 feel more formal simply because they contain 之 , which is a word common in classical Chinese. Both words are ...

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Expressing "since" with "jiran"
... generous? See also Cause and Effect with "yinwei" and "suoyi" Because" with "er" Indicating Effect Expressing "Even if…" with "jishi ...

5 KB (685 words) - 07:37, 19 January 2021
Expressing contrariness with "dao"
... bù shì yīnwèi xǐhuan tā, shì yīnwèi tā gōngzuò hěn nǔlì.I helped him not because I liked him, but because he worked very hard. 他不是很努力，成绩倒也不 ...

5 KB (701 words) - 06:44, 17 December 2020
Expressing distance with "li"
... from me. It's a somewhat atypical usage when compared with the others, because it uses two people rather than two places. The sentence literally means ...

5 KB (709 words) - 08:56, 21 April 2021
Expressing "never" with "conglai"
... not a part of your life experience). You're talking about the past now, because you're talking about what you haven't done before, so 没有 (méiyǒu) is ...

5 KB (793 words) - 04:52, 9 March 2019
Expressing "almost" using "chadian mei"
... terms of meaning, this structure is identical to the regular 差点 structure. Again, because you're using 没 here, you don't use 了 after the verb phrase ...

4 KB (660 words) - 06:56, 11 December 2020
Comparing "gang" and "gangcai"
... kàndào le.I just saw it. 我刚才看到了。了 is needed with 刚才 because it feels so recent and unresolved.Wǒ gāngcái kàndào le.I saw it just now. A few more ...

11 KB (1,707 words) - 00:21, 14 April 2023
Using "er" to explain contrasting ideas
... yīnwèi xiǎng piàn nǐ, ér shì pà nǐ bù gāoxìng.I didn't tell you not because I wanted to deceive you, but rather I was afraid you would be upset. 我 ...

6 KB (837 words) - 03:46, 18 January 2022
Polite requests with "qing"
... as we use the word "please" in English. It's not because Chinese people are rude; it's because the word 请 (qǐng) feels rather formal in Chinese, and ...

4 KB (567 words) - 09:21, 20 April 2021
Ba-test
... 他介绍给我老板了。把 Sentences with Complements Because 把 sentences are all about "doing stuff" to the object, and complements ...

12 KB (1,773 words) - 03:08, 29 December 2021
Main Page
... or after all always have just because for more want about again almost ...

11 KB (1,514 words) - 12:21, 20 February 2024
Grammar by Word
Because Mandarin Chinese is a non-inflecting language, it feels to native English speakers as very much a language of words, rather than strict rules. ...

746 bytes (118 words) - 07:05, 28 February 2011
Noun
... above, nouns are never results. '''EXAMPLES''' 不 Nouns aren't negated by "不" because "不" is used to negate verbs. You can't say "not dog." It ...

3 KB (412 words) - 09:20, 22 January 2017
Adverb
... adverbs cannot come before the subject of a sentence. This is very important because in English they can, but this is much less common in Chinese ...

3 KB (376 words) - 07:59, 17 May 2016
Preposition
... indicate location or direction. They are called "pre"-positions because they are positioned ''before'' the words that they modify. Characteristics ...

2 KB (329 words) - 07:49, 22 November 2018
Conjunction
... relationships include coordination ( and ), causality ( so ), condition ( because ), supposition ( if ), alternation ( or ), and succession ...

3 KB (402 words) - 03:23, 30 May 2016
Reading Tools
... ://www.google.com/chrome Google Chrome (both available for PC and Mac), because not only are they the best modern browsers, but they also have the ...

3 KB (427 words) - 02:41, 16 July 2021
Aspect
... in Chinese are 了 (le), 过 (guo), and 着 (zhe). A New Mindset Because Chinese does not have tenses, the question, "''how do you form the past tense ...

2 KB (226 words) - 07:09, 20 February 2020
Personal pronoun
... a group of females. Note that this is only important while writing, because otherwise they are pronounced the same. When referring to a group in first ...

1 KB (215 words) - 07:43, 22 November 2018
Ordinal numbers with "di"
... second. Note that there are some words that don't use measure words because they themselves are already measure words. For example: 天 (tiān), 年 (nián ...

7 KB (1,069 words) - 08:53, 21 April 2021
Part of speech
... possibilities), but it doesn't often work in Mandarin. This is because Mandarin words rarely have these telltale morphological markers. Yes there are ...

7 KB (1,166 words) - 03:42, 29 November 2013