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One of the cool features of Chinese is complements, and in this article we introduce a few of them.
  
 
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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 十点半
  • 你 坐 我 旁 边儿
  • 我 发 电子邮件

See also

Sources and further reading

Books

HSK4