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Wondering where to put a time frequency word in a Chinese sentence?

Which one of the following sentences is correct?

我每个星期去四次大学 or 我每个星期去大学四次?

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Both are correct.

You can say 我每个星期去四次大学 or 我每个星期去大学四次.

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the former sounds weird. it roughly translates to "I go four times to university every week". while the latter feels more natural, "I go to university four times a week".

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  • Agree. The latter one is more natural, though the former one is also acceptable in spoken language.
    – Stan
    Jun 3, 2014 at 16:29
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All are right but means a little different.

If you want to stress going to college, you may use the 1st one. If you want to stress 4 times, you should use the 2nd one.

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Both of the sentences are correct and they have the same meaning.

Notice:

In "我每个星期去四次大学", "university" sounds less important to you, just like "我每天去六次厕所 (I go to toilet six times a day)".

"我每个星期去大学四次" emphasises on the number of times you go to university. "University" sounds more important in this case.

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我 每个星期 去 四次 大学

or

我 每个星期 去 大学 四次

Both sentences are OK in modern Chinese. I myself prefer the latter.

In fact, the word order in Chinese is not that strict. So, the above example sentence can also be as follows:

每个星期 我 去 大学 四次

每个星期 我 去 四次 大学

大学 每个星期 我 去 四次

我 去 大学 每个星期 四次

我 去 大学 四次 每个星期

每个星期 四次 我 去 大学

Perhaps there are more possible combinations.

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  • 呃。。。如果这样说话的话,现实里会被打吧?
    – Siwei
    Sep 30, 2022 at 7:40
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In real life selfdom people would say 去大学, this is very wired. you can say : 我去大学上班 or 我去上班 or 我去大学的办公室

so, in these 2 sentences, the content in bracks[] are 副词(adv), which order is flex.

  • 我[每个星期]去[四次]大学
  • 我[每个星期]去大学[四次]

so, both of them are grammar correct

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我每个星期去四次大学, you repeat the action(verb) 去 four times a week.

Such as: 你每个星期去几次大学?去四次。

我每个星期去大学四次, you repeat the whole event(verb+noun)去大学 four times a week。

Such as: 你每个星期都很忙吗?是啊。我要去大学四次,去医院看我妈妈五次,还有很多事情。

Sometimes it is critical to have the correct order of words. For example:

我每个月领取四次三千五百元的工资。(OK) (14000)

我每个月领取四次工资, 三千五百元。(not good)

我每个月领取四次工资, 每次三千五百元。(OK) (14000)

我每个月领取四次工资, 一共三千五百元。(OK) (3500)

我每个月领取三千五百元工资四次。(not good)

我每个月领取三千五百元工资,要分成四次领取。(OK) (3500)

我的工资是每个月三千五百元, 分成四次领取。(OK) (3500)

我每次领三千五百元工资, 每个月领四次。(OK) (14000)

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我一周去四次大学还是我每个去大学四次?

我的回复: 一周 与每周 都是 正确的用法与语法,但是每周用的更多一点。 你应该把: 每周 写成了: 每个, 每个 用在这里是不正确的。

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  • Welcome to Chinese Language! It might be worthwhile editing your answer to include an English version, since the author asked it in English as well.
    – Glorfindel
    Oct 3, 2022 at 17:14

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