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Expressing "be going to" with "yao"
... 要 (yào) typically includes a time noun time word of some sort, which may be placed before or after the subject. This is fairly logical; if you're ...

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Expressing "not anymore" with "le"
... 已经已经 (yǐjīng) , which Expressing "already" with "yijing" means "already," may nor may not accompany it. 不 with Only 了 Structure 不 ...

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Subject-predicate construction
... The subject-predicate construction consists of a subject and a predicate, and may be part of a larger sentence, or may serve as a sentence on its own.

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Beginner Guide to Chinese Grammar
... from the grammar of those European languages you may have encountered before. Still, Chinese grammar may surprise you with its pleasing simplicity and ...

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Verb
... " words which make up the predicates of most sentences, but may also simply indicate relationships, changes, or mental activity rather than physical ...

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Expressing "and" with "he" (advanced)
... what appears to be non-nouns linked by 和. This article addresses how you may see 和 used in other ways. It's worth mentioning that none of these uses ...

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Marking a topic with "ma"
... with "ma" the sentence-final 嘛 pattern you may know, the following comment ''may or may not'' be one the speaker feels is obvious. Structure ...

3 KB (462 words) - 09:33, 14 January 2021
Main Page
... /about on Google+ . '''All content on this wiki © AllSet Learning, and may not be reproduced without attributions or used for commercial purposes.''' ...

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Chinese Grammar Reference Materials
... (汉语口语速成中级篇) Websites for Chinese Grammar The following websites may be useful to you: http://comet.cls.yale.edu/mandarin/content/grammar.htm ...

10 KB (1,344 words) - 09:03, 29 July 2014
Grammar by Word
... you don't have tenses. Instead, in Chinese, you obsess over 了, which may be an aspectual particle, but it's also a ''word''. Studying Chinese grammar ...

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Alternative existential sentences
... or location is not just limited to 在 (zài) and 有 (yǒu). The word order may be a little different from what you are used to, but 着 (zhe) and 是 (shì ...

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Personal pronoun
... in Chinese: 我们 (wǒmen) and 咱们 (zánmen). The former is may exclude the listener, while the latter always includes them. When making reflexive ...

1 KB (215 words) - 07:43, 22 November 2018
Causative verbs
... and is often translated into English as either "make" or "let." It may seem strange to speakers of English that these two very different words are the ...

5 KB (721 words) - 03:19, 11 March 2019
Part of speech
... nouns and verbs can take the ending ''-s''. You get the idea. This may be a handy shortcut for identifying parts of speech (or at least eliminating ...

7 KB (1,166 words) - 03:42, 29 November 2013
Chinese word order
AKA sentence order 语序 (yǔxù) 词序 (cíxù) You may have heard that word order in Chinese is very similar to that of English, and compared to a ...

15 KB (1,942 words) - 03:56, 22 November 2020
Chinese textbook grammar index
... '' Qing Wen '' (free content on ChinesePod.com; signup may be required) Websites '' Yale Chinese Usage Dictionary '' Dictionaries ...

14 KB (1,912 words) - 07:24, 14 November 2019
Location complement
... don't imply motion towards something can't take location complements. Some verbs may take place in a location but do not imply motion towards that ...

3 KB (376 words) - 03:18, 30 March 2017
Placement of question words
... ; asking questions about the past can be slightly more complicated and may involve the Using the "shi... de" construction "shi... de" construction ...

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Tag questions with "ma"
... 以吗？ Māma, wǒ yào chī qiǎokèlì, kěyǐ ma?Mom, I want to eat chocolate. May I? See also Yes-no questions with "ma" Tag questions with "bu ...

3 KB (490 words) - 08:54, 21 April 2021
Using the verb "xing"
... 姓 (xìng) literally means "to be surnamed" or "to have the surname." It may seem awkward at first that there's a verb just for this, but you'll find ...

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Structure of days of the week
... to as 星期日 (Xīngqīrì). One other implication of this system that you may not have noticed: "day one" is Monday. In Chinese culture, the first day of ...

4 KB (668 words) - 09:23, 20 April 2021