You may have seen both 有问题 and 出问题 in Chinese, both are often translated to mean “has a problem” or “has a fault”, however there is a difference in meaning. Consider the following phrases: My car has a problem My car has a problem / Something went wrong with my car / My car has […]
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Interrogative Pronouns are the “who? what? when? where? why? how?” questions you may have learned at school. Interrogative Pronouns are essnetially the thing we are asking about. Chinese Interrogative Pronouns are: Chinese Interrogative Pronoun English Interrogative Pronoun What? Which? Which (Plural)? Who? Whose? When? Where? Why? With interrogative pronouns, the word order between the question
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用 and 使用 both mean “to use” in Chinese, with the main difference being that 使用 is more formal.
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The ne character is a special character that can be used in two ways, to ask a reciprocal question, or to add mood to a question or statement.
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The three ways to write a range in Chinese.
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Written Chinese doesn’t use spaces between words, but modern Chinese does use punctuation, so you can still tell where one sentence stops and the next starts. With Chinese words being multiple characters, a Chinese reader relies on experience to know where one word stops and the next start. Chinese Beginner books and learning material often
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Chinese characters can be stand alone words, but single character words are not the most common. In fact, Chinese words can be one or more characters and typically range up to four characters or even longer. Below is a chart showing word length in characters based on our online Chinese-English Dictionary, which contains nearly 120,000
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The short answer is that 楼 (lóu) means “floor”, while 层 (céng) is a classifier meaning “storey” or “layer”.
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