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Questions about verbs, their characteristics and their specific use.
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How is 住 used as a suffix in a verb phrase
when "住" is used as a suffix of a verb. It has two possible meanings:
To express that something would be secured, under your control.
To express that the motion stops, or pauses, to be stationary.
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Why isn't 到 (dào) used in 某天我去北京?
First, grammars of Chinese and English are totally different, you don't need the preposition like in English.
Second, in my opinion, 去 indicates that you start the action of "going to a place",and "到" …
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Flexibility of word classes in Chinese
B:我要吃 I want to eat (it), or more idiomatically, yeah, please
For some verbs, you can use the structure "Verb+的" to nominalize it.
吃的= something edible
穿的 = cloth, something to wear …
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Stative verbs in Chinese: only for adjectives?
As a native speaker, I have noticed such a phenomenon for many years, but I have never thought of the logic or reasons behind it. Perhaps we should not (or even could not) go too far on this topic.
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