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Expressing "once...then..." with "yidan...jiu..."
... leave out the 就 and the context that the result will happen is pretty clear. Sources and further reading Books Source New Practical ...

4 KB (677 words) - 04:35, 18 December 2020
Chinese word order
... to remember the word order in Chinese is the order in which things have to happen. For example, time has to pass before you can be at a place, so that ...

15 KB (1,942 words) - 03:56, 22 November 2020
In the future in general with "yihou"
... 以后 (yǐhòu) either sounds weird, or makes it sound like it's going to happen really soon (just a little later), rather than at some indefinite point in ...

4 KB (612 words) - 07:18, 22 April 2019
Expressing "as long as" with "zhiyao"
... this structure to express that "as long as" something happens , "then" something else will happen . In logic, this is referred to as a " http://en ...

4 KB (608 words) - 03:48, 8 February 2022
Uses of "le"
... " 已经 + Verb + 了他已经走了。了2 - ASGNGEU8 Expressing "about to happen" with "le" 快 + Verb / Adj. + 了快下雨了。了2 - ASGFR96B ...

10 KB (1,220 words) - 06:13, 5 June 2023
Expressing completion with "le"
... after an object . Putting 了 After Consecutive Actions So what happens if a whole string of things happened in the past? Do you have to put a 了 ...

8 KB (1,185 words) - 09:22, 20 April 2021
Comparing "cai" and "jiu"
... " 才 indicates that the speaker feels that the events discussed happened later than expected. Sometimes it also expresses anxiety, impatience, anger ...

9 KB (1,300 words) - 09:28, 17 December 2020
Comparing "changchang" and "wangwang"
... of a regular situation. 往往 has nothing to do with how often something happens. When using 往往, the sentence itself usually has a kind of condition of ...

5 KB (558 words) - 07:35, 9 July 2021
Expressing "inevitably" with "shibi"
... . It gets across the same idea as "bound to happen" does in English. Structure Situation occurring (verb) + 势必 + verb/resultative situation ...

690 bytes (82 words) - 02:58, 20 August 2018
The "shi... de" construction for emphasizing details
... , 了 is not the right choice, because you're not asking if an event happened or not. You're asking about details of past events. When you are singling ...

16 KB (2,467 words) - 09:23, 20 April 2021
Reduplication of verbs
... Occasionally, though, two-syllable verbs get reduplicated as well. When this happens, it's important to use the "ABAB" pattern for verbs (meaning the ...

5 KB (743 words) - 08:53, 21 April 2021
Expressing "will" with "hui"
... , 会 (huì) can also be used to indicate that something ''will'' happen or that someone ''will'' do something. Subj. + 会 + Verb + Obj. Examples ...

3 KB (500 words) - 09:23, 20 April 2021
Expressing "again" in the future with "zai"
... in the future. That is, 再 is used when something has happened once and it ''will'' happen again. Used as "Again" Remember this is the ''future'' ...

5 KB (699 words) - 08:56, 21 April 2021
Simultaneous tasks with "yibian"
... have to be intentional. If you want to say something happened while another thing was happening, it would be better to use Expressing "when" with ...

4 KB (669 words) - 08:20, 4 March 2019
Cause and effect with "yinwei" and "suoyi"
... cause and effect. They could be thought of as equating to: "Since ___ happened, so ___ happened." It sounds weird to use both "since" and "so" in one ...

7 KB (1,024 words) - 08:57, 21 April 2021
Expressing "unless" with "chufei"
... 不然他的病治不好。Chúfēi yǒu qíjī, bùrán tā de bìng zhì bù hǎo.Unless a miracle happens, his disease can't be cured. 除非你听我的，否则我不会帮你。Chúfēi nǐ ...

6 KB (1,000 words) - 07:37, 19 January 2021
Separable verb
... Note that you can't put 一下 after separable verbs to express that it happened briefly. 见面一下jiànmiàn yīxià Common Examples and Common Mistakes with ...

16 KB (2,510 words) - 02:18, 14 March 2019
Events in quick succession with "yi... jiu..."
... by some certain condition, which could be the reason or the cause of what happens after 就. The subjects of the two "Events" are usually the same. 一 ...

5 KB (681 words) - 04:53, 9 March 2019
Expressing "just now" with "gangcai"
... for you. Note that for all of those cases, we're talking about something that happened ''just now'', as in, within the past 5 minutes or so. If you're ...

3 KB (519 words) - 10:00, 2 April 2019
Expressing "thanks to" with "duokui"
... need to add in 才 to indicate "as a result...(the good outcome happened)." (才 gives the sense that the good outcome ''wouldn't have happened'' without ...

5 KB (784 words) - 03:18, 4 January 2021
Emphasizing negation with "you"
... , 又 is used to emphasize that something "''didn't'' happen," "''is not''" the case, or "''will not'' happen." It's most often used with 不 and 没 ...

4 KB (556 words) - 01:52, 10 November 2020