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Potential complement "-bu dong" for not understanding
... ？Literally, "hear-not-understand"Nǐmen tīng bu dǒng wǒ de huà ma?Do you not understand what I say? 我听不懂你说的英语。 Literally, "hear-not-understand ...

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Separable verb
... of separable verbs that beginners first struggle with are 见面 and 睡觉. What makes them especially hard is that the "object" part of each word seem to ...

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Expressing "just now" with "gangcai"
... le.The boss just got angry. 你们刚才在看什么？Nǐmen gāngcái zài kàn shénme? What were you looking at just now? 不好意思，我刚才出去了。Bù hǎoyìsi, wǒ gāngcái ...

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Comparing "gen" and "dui"
... told me he loved me. 刚才你对他说什么了？Gāngcái nǐ duì tā shuō shén me le?What did you just tell him? 刚才你跟他说什么了？Gāngcái nǐ gēn tā shuō shén me ...

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Comparing "turan" and "huran"
... 办。Shìqing fāshēng de tài tūrán, wǒmen bù zhīdào zěnme bàn.Things happened so suddenly, we didn't know what to do. 这场雨下得太突然，都淋湿了。Zhè chǎng yǔ ...

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Comparing "renjia" and "bieren"
... say. 别人怎么想我怎么知道？Biérén zěnme xiǎng wǒ zěnme zhīdào?How could I know what other people are thinking? 那是人家的事，你管那么多干嘛？Nà shì rénjia de ...

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Advanced usages of the contrary "dao"
... want to get paid without doing your job? 你想得倒简单！怎么可能？What you thought is too simple How could that be possible? Giving An Emphasis with 倒 ...

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Expressing "that's all" with "eryi"
... with 而已 After a Noun Whenever you need to emphasize that something is just what it is and that's all, you can stick 而已 at the end of the sentence ...

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Old Main Page 1
... see how it works, try finding your own textbook in our list, and then seeing what it links to. (If there are no links yet, there will be soon ) http ...

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Comparing "yihou" and "de shihou"
... . 无聊的时候可以做些什么？Wúliáo de shíhou kěyǐ zuò xiē shénme? What can you do when you're bored? 的时候 is also similar to using Simultaneous tasks with ...

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Indirect object
... in a sentence. The indirect object is for/to whom/what the action of the verb is done and who/what is receiving the direct object. In Chinese grammar ...

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Tricky uses of "dao"
... ("to hear"). But other times it's less clear what the -到 really means. Like the difference between ... 买到 or 做 and 做到. What -到 adds is a clearer message ...

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Expressing "half" with "ban"
... gè bàn xiǎoshían hour and a half The order is actually basically the same as what we do in English (we just don't have so many pesky measure words to ...

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Expressing "nothing but" with "wufei"
... but." People use 无非 to soften the meaning of what they're talking about, or to stress that what they're saying isn't serious or awesome. The end of ...

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Advanced uses of "ba"
... 他从来不把老板的话当回事。Tā cónglái bù bǎ lǎobǎn de huà dāng huíshì.He never takes what his boss says seriously. 你这个人总是太把自己当回事了。Nǐ zhè ge rén ...

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Expressing "as a result" with "jieguo"
... is no cause-effect relationship between what comes before and after 结果 ... the sentence usually emphasizes that what actually happened was unexpected or ...

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Advanced uses of "bei"
... 吸引了。He got deeply attracted by her beauty. 他做的事情经常不被家人所理解。What he does is often not understood by his family. 这种政策是不被人们所接受的。This ...

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Expressing "from" with "cong... zhong"
... this trip. 从这杯水中你能看到什么？Cóng zhè bēi shuǐ zhōng nǐ néng kāndào shénme?What do you see in this glass of water? 从这次的比赛中我收获了友谊。Cóng ...

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Comparing "kanqilai" and "kanlai"
... usage of 看起来, and with the help of 像, we can explicitly state what the object looks like. Structure Subj. + 看起来 + 像 ⋯⋯ Examples 你姐姐 ...

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Using the "suo" structure
... 所字句 (suǒzìjù) in Chinese, are common in formal Chinese. Part of what makes them confusing is that the 所 frequently feels superfluous, and yet this ...

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Expressing a last chance with "zaibu... jiu..."
... the pattern 再不…… 就…… (zàibù... jiù...) Structure (Subj. +) 再不 …… 就 ……（了） What comes right after 再不 is the action that needs to be taken ''now'' ...

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