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What I don't fully understand is the grammar of 唱好歌. I know that 好 can be used as a result complement like 我做好作业了 I've finished my homework. … My first question is - is this the normal grammar for asking this type of question, or is there an alternative structure? …

It's a particle like 呢 or 了 etc. Obviously 的 also has several other uses and it can sometimes be difficult to tell them apart especially if you have no context to the sentence. The way it's used here …

我最近没打过羽毛球 Just wondering if the 过 in this sentence can be omitted? Or does the sentence have a slightly different meaning if I remove it?

Regarding 学 and 学到: 学 means to study. 我们学了很多生词 indicates you studied lots of new words. 学到 means to study + success. It emphasises that something has been learned successfully. 我们学到了很多生词 indicates y …

For example, when offered a choice, I might want to say "do I have to choose among these, or can I choose any others?" How do I express this? I thought of 非得选这些里面的一个吗？还是能选别的？ But I want to confi …

In the sentence 我住在北京 The "在北京" is a something called a "location complement". You can read more about them here. However, if you just want an easy way to remember how to correctly form sente …

I have a few English sentences I'm struggling to translate to Chinese, although I'm HSK5 level. Here they are, along with my attempted translations (please be strict and critical cos I want to know th …

What is the difference between: 你最近看过电视吗？ 你最近看了电视吗？ and 你最近去过杂货店吗？ 你最近去了杂货店吗？ And similarly, if I want to say "recently I went to my favourite cinema and found it's closed down" would I say 我最近去了我 …

I've seen this structure translated as "when" before. E.g: 他的右腿伤了，走起路来很疼 He hurt his right leg, and it's sore when he walks

考 is the verb. 我 / 下个星期 / 要 / 考 / 中文 I / next week / will / test / Chinese If it helps, you could regard 考中文 here as a set construction meaning "to have a Chinese test". Same for 考数学 etc.

过去的事情就不要说了? 不要说了 means "don't talk about". 过去的事情 means "past stuff" or more idiomatically "the past". So 过去的事情不要说了 means "don't talk about the past/past events". The 就 is a grammatical particle …

对...的责任 means "responsibility to ..." 就是 translates as "is" here. The character 就 may be what is confusing you, it's a very common character that is hard to explain but you will get a feel for it as …

"I have known her since we were both 2 years old." I would translate this as simply: 我们两岁就认识的 "We were just 2 when we got to know each other" Sometimes the tricky part of translation is th …

你说得不是太快就是太慢 is what I would say.

This is called the "potential complement" and is a common grammar pattern. You're the number one student! 你是最佳学生！ …