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One of the cool features of Chinese is complements, and in this article we introduce a few of them.
Structure
One kind of complement in Chinese involves putting 到, 给 or 在 after the verb. These are used to indicate direction, target and location, respectively.
Subject + Verb + 到 / 给 / 在 ...
Examples
- 我 工作 到 十点半。
- 你 坐 在 我 旁 边儿。
- 我 发 电子邮件 给 你。
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