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Questions about verbs, their characteristics and their specific use.
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How do you handle separable verbs or phrasal verbs in Chinese?
Looking at phrasal verbs:
Check out my new computer.
They can be "separable" too:
Check my new computer out.
Does Chinese have this sort of feature? If not, what does it do instead? …
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Linguistic Gloss (literal translation) of long English verb phrases into Mandarin Chinese
Like in English you can have up to 4 (from what I've seen) verbs chained together. …
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How to more carefully explain how coverbs work in Chinese?
Please write the gloss using ONLY VERBS where the coverbs are supposed to go. Wikipedia makes this extra confusing when they do this:
They put "cóng" as "from"!!! Well, from isn't a verb in English. …
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Where to find collection of Chinese serialized verb constructions (SVC)?
I have encountered a pretty cool area of research of translating between Chinese and English back and forth, and found documents like A cognitive approach to multi-verb constructions in Mandarin Chine …
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If you can use Chinese nouns as verbs, or vice versa
You can have other ones that are verbs but also nouns, like "lock". "Here is the lock" as a noun, and "Please lock the car door" is a verb. … If it is okay to use nouns as verbs, especially if there is no verb form for a noun (or vice versa, if there is no noun form for a verb). …
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