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Expressing "less than" with "budao"
... of time, it needs to be followed with 就 (jiù). This shows that something (usually referring to the past) has happened earlier than expected. Subj ...

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Advanced uses of "hai"
... Structure Often used with 呢, this sentence structure expresses that the situation as irrational, uncommon, or unexpected. Subj. + 还 ...

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Expressing "through" with "jingguo"
... rènwéi tā méiyǒu zuì.After one week of investigation, the police believe that he's not guilty. See also Expressing "through" with "tongguo ...

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Expressing "multiples" with "bei"
... important linguistic difference between English and Chinese to note here is that in Chinese, you're typically talking about how many multiples ''in ...

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Learning to use "le"
Everyone thinks at first that 了 (le) is best learned as a series of hard and fast rules, similar to how you know what tense to use in Spanish. In ...

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Marking a topic with "ma"
... ，不懂这些很正常。Háizi ma, bù dǒng zhèxiē hěn zhèngcháng.Kids. It's not unusual that they don't understand these things. 老板请客嘛，随便点。Lǎobǎn qǐngkè ma ...

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Expressing "once" with "cengjing"
... 他曾经做过很多傻事。Tā shuō tā céngjīng zuò guò hěn duō shǎ shì.He said that he once did a lot of stupid things. 我曾经喜欢过你。Wǒ céngjīng xǐhuan guò nǐ.I ...

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Expressing "even more" with "geng" or "hai"
... question with 还 can be understood as "how can it be?" Also note that 更 can be used with 了 in this pattern, indicating change of situation or ...

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Expressing "however" with "ran'er"
... ." The difference between 然而 (rán'ér) and 可是 or 不过 is that 然而 is more formal. Structure Statement, 然而 + Unexpected Outcome/Contrary ...

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Expressing "related to..." with "you guan de"
... zhǔtí wúguān de shìqing, wǒmen jiù bù tǎolùn le.We will not discuss matters that are not relevant to the theme of this meeting. Sources and further ...

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Expressing "within" a period of time using "zai... nei"
... xiǎoshí nèi chī le liǎng cì fàn, nǐ zhème è ma?You ate twice in one hour. Are you really that hungry? 我在短短的半小时内接到了 10 个电话。Wǒ zài duǎnduǎn de ...

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Additional way to express "in the name of"
stub You already know that "以……的名义" (yǐ……de míngyì) is one way to express "in the name of." Similar to this structure is "借……之名" (jiè……zhī míng) ...

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Expressing "inevitably" with "shibi"
... to something that's happening (before a verb) expresses an inevitability and certainty that such a thing will happen. It gets across the same idea as ...

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Comparing separable verbs and phrasal verbs
... go in between those two parts. Separable verbs work much the same way in Chinese, except that the two parts are a ''verb'' and an ''object'' (a noun).

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CEFR and HSK Comparison
... should equal: ask: Level::+ format=count . (A number higher than that for the HSK levels indicates grammar point overlap between books ...

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Polite requests with "qing"
... , where is the restroom? Being Polite without 请 (qǐng) You may have noticed that the Chinese themselves do not use 请 (qǐng) nearly as much as we ...

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Asking how something is with "zenmeyang"
Grammar Box You may know that How to do something with "zenme" 怎么 (zěnme) can mean "how" , but by adding to it and making it 怎么样 (zěnmeyàng), ...

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Expressing "then" with "jiu"
... diàn chīfàn ba, nà jiā diàn rén tài duō le .Let's just eat at this restaurant. That one is too crowded. 就去看电影吧。Jiù qù kàn diànyǐng ba.Let's just ...

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Reduplication of measure words
... 个个 and 天天. It adds the meaning of "every" to the noun that follows. Structure The reduplicated measure word should precede the predicate of the ...

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Acknowledgments-HSK
... . A big thank you also to Adam Abrams for all the layout work that went into creating the print version. Other Credits The Chinese Grammar Wiki ...

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Complaining
The following structures that can be used in Chinese to complain. They are organized according to our grammar points by level . CF Category: ...

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