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This is mostly just for clarity rather than anything else. 他游泳得很快 is not okay but 他游得很快 is okay. Without any context though who could understand a random 他游得很快? No one, really. Hence we get our doubl …

You've parsed it incorrectly. Here 开 + 会儿 are separate words. 开 = to turn on 会儿 = for a bit / for a moment If you put the sentence into a machine translation you'd get something like: It's a bit c …

MDBG:撒娇 the first two definitions: to act like a spoiled child to throw a tantrum are the usual meanings of this word. Think of a kid who has got a boo-boo, it doesn't really, super, hurt, but the c …

以为 is mostly used for: wrongly thought/believed like: 我以为你死了！ I thought you were dead! 觉得 is closer to: feel/think (of an opinion) like: 你这样说，我觉得非常不靠谱 What you said is totally unreasonable. …

不 1 (used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs; never before 有) not; won't; not want to 我不去。 Wǒ bù qù. I'm not going. or I won't go. 他昨天不来,可是今天来了。 … 有 might be the only exception I can think of at the moment but that's been covered here: Why is 有 (yǒu) the only verb that requires 没 while other verbs can use 不? …

动词的重叠 Reduplication of Verbs (II): V了V Some verbs can be reduplicated in the form V了V structure to indicate that the action takes only a short amount of time and/or the action is done only for a limited … 休息 - 休息了休息 离合词 (Líhé Cí ▸ Two-character Detachable Compound Verbs) 唱歌 - 唱了唱歌 散步 - 散了散步 游泳 - 游了游泳 Below are example sentences to study Reduplication of Verbs - V了V: Yéye xiào le xiào, duì wǒ shuō: “ …