Timeline for How exactly do time and "tense" work in Mandarin REALLY?
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| Jul 21, 2017 at 14:49 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | “By the way, the correct verb for read in Mandarin, is 读. Using 看 can be somewhat confusing.” — There’s nothing wrong with 看; if anything, it’s 读 which can be confusing. 看书 always means just ‘read (a book)’, whereas 读书 (but of course not contexts like 读过一本书) can also mean ‘study’ or ‘go to school’. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 9:14 | history | edited | mootmoot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 9:02 | comment | added | mootmoot | @mike3 My suggestion is : check your native language and see whether other will get the explicit meaning. If not, expand them to make it clear, then check foreign language counterpart. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 8:29 | history | edited | mootmoot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 22:56 | comment | added | The_Sympathizer | The context was mentioned, I just did not know how to do the question out in Chinese as I was more hunting around for an example and could not find one readily at mind where the whole context could have been made up in Chinese even though I had encountered such before. Just "wasn't on the top of my head", so to say. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 16:08 | history | answered | mootmoot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |