enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of Chinese classifiers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_classifiers

    When assumed, the classifier usually falls back to play a similar role to either 雙 / 双, 副 or 對 /对: for example, when used for certain objects that come in pairs, e.g. 搭檔 / 搭档, represented as 一組搭檔 / 一组搭档 (一對搭档 / 一对搭档 is valid), here the quantity in each set is assumed to be two (i.e. one pair).

  3. bǎ construction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bǎ_construction

    The bǎ construction may only be used in certain contexts, generally those in which the verb expresses "settlement" of, or action upon, the object. [1] [4] [5] According to Wang Li, "the disposal form states how a person is handled, manipulated, or dealt with; how something is disposed of; or how an affair is conducted," [6] or, in other words, "what happens to" the object. [4]

  4. Chinese grammar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_grammar

    tā He 打 dǎ hit 人。 rén person 他 打 人。 tā dǎ rén He hit person He hits someone. Chinese can also be considered a topic-prominent language: there is a strong preference for sentences that begin with the topic, usually "given" or "old" information; and end with the comment, or "new" information. Certain modifications of the basic subject–verb–object order are permissible and ...

  5. Subject–object–verb word order - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject–object–verb...

    However, especially in Standard Mandarin, SOV is tolerated as well. There is even a special particle 把 (bǎ) used to form an SOV sentence. [11] The following example that uses 把 is controversially labelled as SOV. 把 may be interpreted as a verb, meaning "to hold". However, it does not mean to hold something literally or physically.

  6. File:Chinese (Mandarin).pdf - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_(Mandarin).pdf

    English: This is a PDF file of the Mandarin Chinese Wikibook, edited to include only the Introduction, Pronunciation and complete or somewhat complete lessons (Lessons 1-6). Does not include the Appendices, Stroke Order pages, or the Traditional character pages.

  7. Chinese adjectives - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_adjectives

    Chinese adjectives (simplified Chinese: 形容词; traditional Chinese: 形容詞; pinyin: xíngróngcí) differ from adjectives in English in that they can be used as verbs [1] (for example 天 黑 了; tiān hēi le; lit. "sky black perfective") and thus linguists sometimes prefer to use the terms static or stative verb to describe them.

  8. Chinese classifier - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_classifier

    In Chinese, a numeral cannot usually quantify a noun by itself; instead, the language relies on classifiers, commonly also referred to as measure words. [note 2] When a noun is preceded by a number, a demonstrative such as this or that, or certain quantifiers such as every, a classifier must normally be inserted before the noun. [1]

  9. Classical Chinese lexicon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese_lexicon

    Some Classical Chinese words can have more than one meaning. However, Classical Chinese words still exist among many chengyu, or Chinese idioms. The Classical Chinese words and examples will be written in traditional characters, and the modern vernacular will be written in both simplified and traditional characters.