Questions tagged [grammar]
Questions about the grammatical rules governing Chinese structure and composition.
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Can the 的 particle ever function without “nominalizing”?
From my answer in What is the meaning of 的 in “有一天你会明白的”? and according to Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson - Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar, I believed the function of the particle ...
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Why can some words such as 安宁 be either a noun or a adjective?
This is just one of the many examples where I noticed this, but with these words, does that mean I can say something like:
我找到我心里的安宁 or something along those lines and treat it as if it were a noun, ...
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Meaning of 说话人最可能 **是** 什么关系？
是,有
Would you please let me know if in this sentence "说话人最可能 是 什么关系？", we can use 有 instead of 是 to be read as:
说话人最可能 有 什么关系？
