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Comparing "kending" "queding" and “yiding"
... 就是他的声音。Wǒ gǎn kěndìng zhè jiùshì tā de shēngyīn.I'm quite sure that this is his voice. Structure with 确定确定 has the meaning of "confirm" or ...

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Using "ji" to mean "several"
... 人去过那个地方。Zhǐyǒu jǐ gè rén qù guo nàge dìfang.Only a few people have been to that place. 从上海到东京坐飞机只要几个小时。Cóng Shànghǎi dào Dōngjīng zuò ...

6 KB (1,035 words) - 08:54, 21 April 2021
Expressing "about to happen" with "le"
... zài děng yīhuìr.We're about to get off. Just wait a little while. Notice that for some translations, it's more natural to use the English word "almost ...

5 KB (842 words) - 08:56, 21 April 2021
Expressing "on the basis of" with "ping"
... I have studied Chinese for a shorter time but speak it better than you, I can say that I'm smarter than you. 凭老李在这一行做了二十年，他就有资格做你 ...

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Comparing "guanyu" and "duiyu"
... person or object. 对于那个人我并不了解。Duìyú nàge rén wǒ bìng bù liǎojiě.As for that person, I just don't know him very well at all. 对于我们的工作表现，老板很 ...

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Comparing "budebu" and "zhihao"
... same structure They both indicate that there are no other choices available ... a positive phrase (meaning a phrase that ''does not'' contain 不 or 没), ...

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Comparing "huifu" and "huanyuan"
... original state. Meaning and usage of 恢复恢复 expressing that something is restored that was once destroyed, messed up, or lost. It comes back into ...

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Expressing something is "not worth doing" with "buxie"
... . It also means "to believe something is worth doing ." In that case, 不屑 means "to believe that something is not worth doing." It is important to note ...

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Expressing possession with "zhi"
Grammar Box Stub 之 is one of the characters from classical Chinese that has come into common usage. It a formal written way to express ...

1 KB (168 words) - 02:17, 10 May 2016
Expressing "in light of" with "jianyu"
... . 鉴于 can be thought of as "in light of," "in view of," "seeing that," etc. Structure 鉴于 is used the same way as "in regards to." Just ...

1 KB (131 words) - 04:03, 25 April 2017
Expressing "nothing is more...than" with "moguoyu"
... think the best. The answer comes after the 莫过于. 莫过于 is one of the phrases that comes from 文言文 Chinese. The 莫 means "not" or "nobody," and the 过于 means ...

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Expressing "once...then..." with "yidan...jiu..."
... it, it's hard to cure. Notice that in a few of the examples there is ... can leave out the 就 and the context that the result will happen is pretty clear. ...

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Comparing "buduan" and "buting"
... placed both before the verb as an adverb, or after the verb as something that is somewhat like a complement. Either way, it means the same thing. Subj ...

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The Monkey’s Paw:《猴爪》
... . Qian tells the Zhang family of a monkey’s paw he was given that has magical powers to grant three wishes to the holder. Against his better judgment ...

5 KB (616 words) - 07:33, 22 November 2018
The Country of the Blind:《盲人国》
... and no longer have a concept of sight. Chen Fangyuan quickly finds that these people have developed their other senses to compensate for their lack ...

5 KB (660 words) - 06:38, 8 January 2014
Affirmative-negative question
... ? 那个地方好玩不好玩？whole word repeatedNàge dìfang hǎowán bu hǎowán?Is that place fun? 那个地方好不好玩？only the first character repeated Nàge dìfang ...

9 KB (1,407 words) - 08:55, 21 April 2021
Expressing "half" with "ban"
... 年 Examples 半天 bàn tiānhalf a day 半年 bàn niánhalf a year Note that you do ''not'' need to use 个 (gè) here; in fact, it's ''wrong'' to do ...

5 KB (832 words) - 09:08, 10 April 2019
Age with "sui"
... + 岁 This is equivalent to someone "'''is''' x years old" in English. Notice that you don't need to include any verb when you use 岁 (suì). Examples ...

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Expressing "all at once" with "yixiazi"
... 就出名了。Pāi wán nà bù diànyǐng, tā yīxiàzi jiù chūmíng le.He became very famous soon after that movie came out. 看到那张照片，我一下子就想起来了。Kàndào nà ...

4 KB (629 words) - 08:36, 24 April 2019
Expressing "enough" with "gou"
... not going to need a 了 (le). Structure Subj. + 不 + 够 + Adj. / Verb Note that 了 can't be used when it's negated. Examples 他觉得他女朋友不 ...

5 KB (700 words) - 04:50, 9 March 2019
Expressing "finally" with "zhongyu"
... xiǎoshí, zhōngyú zhǎodào le nà jiā diàn.We'd been looking for more than two hours, and we finally found that shop. 这些问题终于解决了。我们应该庆祝一下。Zhèxiē ...

3 KB (480 words) - 09:49, 15 April 2019