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- ... is now a new HSK, the grammar patterns covered here remain more or less the same. This book covers most of the grammar patterns Grammar Points by ...5 KB (276 words) - 08:11, 7 June 2012
- ... mei) Adverb Doing something more with "duo" 多 / Doing something less with "shao" 少 (duo/shao) + V Comparing "gang" and "gangcai ...5 KB (596 words) - 07:50, 3 October 2018
- ... relation between component meaning and compound meaning, e.g. 花生 Others less idiomatic - compound source can be traced through components e.g. 矛盾 ...2 KB (222 words) - 08:37, 26 November 2013
- ... and measure word e.g. 十多个 means more than the number given but less than the next whole number. Like 'odd' in English e.g. "thirty-odd." 多 after ...5 KB (643 words) - 04:51, 9 March 2019
- ... 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 not4 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 not5 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
- Personal and factual statements A slightly less intuitive but more encompassing explanation is that 不 is used to negate statements which are based ...2 KB (320 words) - 02:30, 31 October 2011
- ... 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
- ... 29.1 Similarity 29.2 Difference 29.3 More than 29.4 Less than 29.5 Comparative degree 29.6 Superlative degree 29.7 Relative ...16 KB (1,996 words) - 07:22, 14 November 2019
- ... …, then…" with "ruguo…, jiu…" most formal , "If… then…" with "yaoshi" less formal , least formal) Events in quick succession with "yi... jiu ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 02:27, 25 October 2017
