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Is this sentence correct 很多人需开始工作得帮家
No, it's not correct.
We use 以 to start a reason clause that is at the end of the sentence. Hence 以帮家, not 得帮家. (If you place reason clause at the front, use 为 or 为了.)
For rhythmic reasons, modern ...
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Is 你多久吃一次鱼? a natural way to ask: How often do you eat fish?
你多久吃一次鱼 seems awkward to me. Native Chinese usually don't phrase questions like that.
Instead, we use 你常常吃魚嗎？ (Do you eat fish often?) That sounds more natural to me.
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Is 你多久吃一次鱼? a natural way to ask: How often do you eat fish?
次 is a quantifier that means the number of occurrences. "多久 + v + 一次" means "how long does the said action occur once = how frequently/often that action occurs". Note the change in ...
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Is 你多久吃一次鱼? a natural way to ask: How often do you eat fish?
Is 你多久吃一次鱼? a natural way to ask: How often do you eat fish?
Yes. It is a natural way to ask this kind of question.
If you translate "How often do you eat fish?" into Chinese like this: &...
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Is 你多久吃一次鱼? a natural way to ask: How often do you eat fish?
ChatGPT has no qualms with the question 你多久吃一次鱼?
Neither do I.
I think the "confusion", (using the word advisedly), stems from differentiating "frequency" from "regularity&...
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