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Pronoun
... what you are referring to: personal pronouns (he, she, we, etc.), demonstrative pronouns (this, that), and Placement of question words interrogative ...

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Reference:Contemporary Chinese 4 (当代中文4)
... : however, but 无论 Conjunction: regardless of, no matter ( what, how, etc. ) , whether... or... 发 - Prefix: to get (become) 怕 Verb: to be ...

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Reference:Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 (3rd ed)
... likes" with "jiu" Question Pronouns as Indefinite References (Whoever, Whatever, etc.) Structure of numbers Different units Numbers over One ...

5 KB (596 words) - 07:50, 3 October 2018
Location word
... showing direction and location Single character location nouns (e.g. 上, 下, 里 etc.) rarely used on their own. Usually combined with -边, -面, 以- or 之 ...

2 KB (322 words) - 07:41, 22 November 2018
Demonstrative pronouns
stub Notes 指示代词这, 那 etc. 这儿, 那儿, 这里, 那里 Use of measure words Making a person into a location by adding 这儿 or 那儿 (e.g. 在我这儿) ...

677 bytes (78 words) - 03:15, 3 February 2012
Ordinal numbers with "di"
... they themselves are already measure words. For example: 天 (tiān), 年 (nián), 周 (zhōu), 次 (cì), etc. 第一天，我们在宾馆里。Dì-yī tiān, wǒmen zài bīnguǎn lǐ ...

7 KB (1,069 words) - 08:53, 21 April 2021
Part of speech
... but also to the main elements of a sentence (e.g. subject , predicate , etc.). It is the most reliable and most useful way of determining a ...

7 KB (1,166 words) - 03:42, 29 November 2013
State complement
... an adverb before the adjective, such as 很, 非常, 不太, 有点, etc. Structure Verb / Adj. + 得 + State Complement Examples 她来得有点晚。She ...

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Structure of numbers
... For numbers greater than 100, if the number ends in zero (110, 230, 370, 450, etc.), a number like 150 can be read as 一百五十 (yībǎi wǔshí), but is often ...

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Using "hao" to mean "easy"
... can also be attached to "sense verbs" (e.g. "look," "taste," "smell," etc.) to indicate that something is '''good'' to do'' (rather than "''easy'' to ...

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Expressing "difficult" with "nan"
... also be attached to "sense verbs" (e.g. look, taste, smell, etc.) to indicate that something offers a "bad sensory experience." Structure The ...

3 KB (515 words) - 07:59, 10 April 2019
Time words and word order
... where to put the time words, such as "yesterday," "tomorrow," "this week," etc. in a sentence is really important in order to speak Chinese correctly ...

4 KB (607 words) - 09:23, 20 April 2021
Expressing "a little too" with "you dian"
... 有点舒服 (yǒudiǎn shūfu), 有点好玩儿 (yǒudiǎn hǎowánr), etc., because "happy," "comfortable," and "fun" are all adjectives with positive connotations. See ...

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Counting money
... two mao (5.2) The first number is the amount of whole RMB (or dollars etc.), and the second is the amount smaller units (e.g. cents). So "3.86 RMB ...

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Measure words for counting
... how much of it there is. Examples are "furniture," "paper," "water," etc. You can't say "a furniture"; you need a measure word: "a ''piece'' ...

5 KB (781 words) - 08:54, 21 April 2021
Expressing "every" with "mei"
... are already measure words. For example: 天 (tiān), 年 (nián), 周 (zhōu), 次 (cì) etc. Examples 每个菜都好吃。Měi gè cài dōu hěn hǎochī.Every dish is ...

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Expressing lateness with "cai"
... with a time of some sort, like a specific time of day, age, etc. This pattern is essentially the opposite of Expressing earliness with "jiu" using 就 ...

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Doing something more with "duo"
... this or that more (eat more, drink more water, wear more warm clothing, etc.), and they often use the word 多 (duō). What's not intuitive to learners ...

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Result complements "-dao" and "-jian"
... going to be talking about verbs related to the senses ("see," "hear," etc.), and for this usage, the two are interchangeable. Verbs with 到 (dào ...

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Learner FAQ
... of course there are ways to refer to the past, the present, the future, etc., but it doesn't work quite the same way that English does. Key to these ...

7 KB (1,084 words) - 09:05, 26 November 2013
Using "dui" with verbs
... 感兴趣 ("to be interested in..."). In this case, 对 means "in," "on," "about," etc., and the object doesn't have to be a person. The short list below will ...

5 KB (736 words) - 08:53, 21 April 2021