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  • ... and ''plan to take action on''. It can sound a bit more demanding (and less polite). 想 (xiǎng) on the other hand, often conveys an idea on one's mind ...
    4 KB (575 words) - 08:57, 21 April 2021
  • ... go to a good college. Did you ever notice that some Chinese people with less-than-perfect English will use the phrase "very like?" Now you know why ...
    4 KB (564 words) - 03:53, 16 April 2019
  • ... of a sentence. This could be to make it more polite, gentler and less forceful, or to turn a command into a suggestion. Structure Statement + 吧 ...
    3 KB (414 words) - 09:22, 20 April 2021
  • ... be used to intensify negative adjectives , 极了 (jíle) is a somewhat less common way to intensify both positive and negative adjectives. It is used in ...
    4 KB (523 words) - 08:24, 4 March 2019
  • ... " in comparisons Used for Comparing Used for Denying and refusing Structure Sentence Patterns Translation less Translation not
    4 KB (635 words) - 08:25, 17 December 2020
  • ... that you sometimes see 一边 (yībiān) shortened to 边 (biān) as well, which has a less formal feel. Examples 不要 一边 吃 东西,一边 说话 。Bùyào yībiān chī ...
    4 KB (669 words) - 08:20, 4 March 2019
  • REDIRECT Doing something less with "shao"
    46 bytes (6 words) - 04:26, 24 August 2011
  • ... included examples of the "physical location" usage here, because it's less common and more formal. See also Sequencing past events with ...
    5 KB (716 words) - 08:40, 24 April 2019
  • ... 百姓 更 不 满意 了 。Gǎigé fǎn'ér ràng lǎobǎixìng gèng bù mǎnyì le.Reform actually made the people less satisfied. 你 的 参与 反而 给 我们 带来 了 麻烦 。Nǐ de cānyù fǎn'ér ...
    6 KB (900 words) - 06:46, 11 December 2020
  • ... -得很 (dehěn) is used after adjectives to add intensity. Although less common in everyday speech, meaning-wise it is quite similar to Simple ...
    4 KB (616 words) - 02:37, 17 December 2020
  • ... and refusing Used for Comparing Used for Expressing preference POS Verbs Subprop Verbs Translation less Translation not
    5 KB (811 words) - 00:23, 18 January 2021
  • ... 合 (shìhé) and 合适 (héshì) annoying, to say the least. They mean more or less the same thing, but the former is a verb, while the latter is an adjective ...
    4 KB (653 words) - 09:48, 14 January 2021
  • ... of result complement s by now, but there are a few that are less common and thus may have escaped direct scrutiny until now. This grammar point ...
    7 KB (1,104 words) - 03:29, 29 December 2020
  • ... informal than "No Matter" with "wulun" 无论 , but it is used in more or less the same way. As with other constructions, 都 and 也 can be used in the ...
    6 KB (863 words) - 07:36, 19 January 2021
  • ... " used to express a literal upward movement . 起来 also has some less intuitive usages, which are figurative extensions of the "movement" idea. For ...
    5 KB (698 words) - 07:21, 29 December 2020
  • ... pinyin for characters. We realize that this makes the content far less accessible to beginners, but there is a solution: '''students of Chinese ...
    6 KB (774 words) - 05:56, 27 January 2014
  • ... ), 生气 (shēngqì), 谈话 (tánhuà), 洗澡 (xǐzǎo), 游泳 (yóuyǒng). Slightly less common (but still useful for intermediate learners) separable verbs include: 帮忙 ...
    16 KB (2,510 words) - 02:18, 14 March 2019
  • ... me to worry about this. The Other Meaning of 难怪 This usage is definitely less common, but sometimes 难怪 is a combination of the Difficult to do ...
    5 KB (799 words) - 03:27, 22 November 2020
  • ... . We're talking no more than 1-30 minutes in most situations, and often less than 5 minutes. When used before a verb, 刚才 emphasizes something happened ...
    11 KB (1,707 words) - 00:21, 14 April 2023
  • ... to approval and affirmation. 确定 can be a verb or an adjective, or, less commonly, an adverb of the form "确定 + 地 + Verb." More objective in tone ...
    9 KB (1,327 words) - 02:48, 18 December 2020
  • ... ) , which have the same meaning. In spoken Chinese, this patter is less used than Expressing "would rather" with "ningke" 宁可 . Structure 与 ...
    5 KB (654 words) - 09:42, 2 December 2020

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