Questions tagged [grammar]
Questions about the grammatical rules governing Chinese structure and composition.
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Correct understanding and use and of the words in 全都是用爷爷的番茄，生菜和黄瓜做的。
In the sentence
全都是用爷爷的番茄，生菜和黄瓜做的。
全都是 is a adverb to say without exception.
用 is a preposition to say "with"
爷爷的番茄 , is the object
生菜和黄瓜做 ,is the other part of the object
and 做的 , is the ...
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What are the answers to the HSK6 语病 ("faulty wording") questions on the 22 publicly available HSK6 exams?
[This is a work in progress. You can consider this a first draft now. It still needs some proofreading.]
There are 22 publicly available HSK6 exams. Since I'm studying this topic for my upcoming ...
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Subject + predicate as topic and prepositional phrases
I found this sentence while doing some listening practice:
长时间看电脑，对眼睛不好。
At first, I didn't understand why 长时间, expressing duration, is at the beginning of the sentence acting as topic 长时间看电脑, since I ...
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What exactly are the meaning/function of 的 and 了?
In my experience, not 1 single 对外汉语教师 can explain these two words, the most popular-used, to the students, unfortunately, including myself. Can anyone explains is this sequence: 1. basic/fundamental ...
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Is it possible to have 里 and 上 placed after anything else that a noun?
Is it possible to have 里 ('in') and 上 ('on') placed after anything else that a noun (for instance after a verb)?
I can think about only:
_这里, 那里, 哪里 (two determinants and one pronoun)
_往上
, 向上,
以上,
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How to analyze phrases like 爐子裡的煤球很多 : postposition + 的
According to Paul (2015: 95), 裡 lǐ, 後 hòu, etc. are postpositions.
But in that case, how come do we have the subordinator 的 de just after a postposition, in sentences like 爐子裡的煤球很多 or 房子後的人特別吵 ?
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Placement of 都 in a sentence with 每
The following dialogue is from the book HSK Standard Course 2:
A: 你每天几点起床？
B: 我每天六点起床。
Where would 都 be placed in A and B respectively? After 天 or after 点?
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Is 极了 a result complement or a verb suffix?
My guess: 极 is a result complement that has been grammaticalized in its -了 form to become a sort of suffix on its own. My reasoning for this guess: it was probably originally a result complement ...
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What is the simplest viable method to segment Chinese text?
I understand that automated Chinese word segmentation (breaking up text into constituent words) is a hard problem, as it's sometimes possible to segment the same sentence in different ways. As a ...
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what this mean - 丑八怪 , can any 1 teach the exact latest chinese words with meaning
I have a gaming group in which this term "丑八怪"is being used a lot along with the 眼皮底下, anyway all the letters look similar.
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Why are measure words omitted after specifiers and before some verbs?
这（个）是我的，this is mine: Before 是，normally I would omit 个
这没有道理, this doesn't make sense: Before 有 I would find 个 strange. Although maybe that is because 有道理 is an abstract concept. If I was talking ...
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从。。。看 , 是。。。的 and 方面 in this sentence
I have this sentence from my textbook that is very confusing to me.
您看看这个，不管从价格方面看，还是从质量上看，都是值得考虑的。
First I understand it's meant to mean along the lines of: "Look at this one, not only in ...
