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[haulogerie]

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[relogioserelogios]

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[swisswatches-magazine]

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[gwendolynlerman]

Mandarin grammar

Five general rules

Here are five general grammar rules to help you get a feel for Mandarin Chinese and how it works.

1. What precedes modifies what follows

Despite it sounding complicated, this rule is actually quite straightforward. It simply means that modifiers come before the thing they modify.

Here are some examples:

他不喜欢 贵的 东西。 (Tā bù xǐhuan guì de dōngxi.) - He doesn't like expensive things.

我哥哥 慢慢地 ��车。 (Wǒ gēgē mànmande kāichē.) My older brother drives slowly.

As you can see, the modifier comes before the thing it modifies. 贵的 (expensive) comes before 东西 (things) and 慢慢地 (slowly) comes before 开车 (drive).

Knowing this rule can be very helpful to identify modifiers (adjectives and adverbs) and the things they are modifying (nouns and verbs) more easily, and to know that adjectives should be placed before the nouns they modify and adverbs before the verbs they modify.

2. Words do not change

Unlike in European languages, words in Mandarin do not change. They have a fixed form that is the same no matter what they are used for or where they appear in a sentence. For example, verbs are not conjugated:

我去工作。 (Wǒ qù gōngzuò.) - I go to work.

她去工作。 (Tā qù gōngzuò.) - She goes to work.

我们去工作。 (Wǒmen qù gōngzuò.) - We go to work.

他们去工作。 (Tāmen qù gōngzuò.) - They go to work.

The verb 去 (go) is the same in every sentence and does not change.

It is not just verbs that never change; adjectives are also fixed in their form.

我看到了一些 黑色的 猫。 (Wǒ kàn dàole yīxiē hēisède māo.) - I saw some black cats.

这是一件 黑色的 衬衫。 (Zhè shì yī jiàn hēisède chènshān.) - This is a black shirt.

The adjective in these sentences, 黑色的 (black), is the same for each of the items, as there is no gender or grammatical number in Mandarin.

3. Mandarin is topic-prominent

This means that it puts the thing the sentence is about first. English is subject prominent, which means that it puts the doer of an action (the subject) in a sentence first.

The topic is not a grammatical role, but the thing that the sentence is about, i.e., the main point of the sentence. It is also called the theme of the sentence.

I've finished my work.

In this sentence, the subject is “I”, but the sentence is not about the speaker, it is about the work. So the topic of this sentence is “the work”.

Because Mandarin is topic-prominent, it is often possible and very natural to put the topic first in a sentence rather than the subject:

红酒我不太喜欢。 (Hóngjiǔ wǒ bù tài xǐhuan.) - Red wine, I don't really like.

一支笔有吗？ (Yī zhī bǐ yǒu ma?) - A pen - got one?

You could also form the sentences with the subject first, and they would be just as grammatical.

The last sentence does not include the subject (you) at all, because Chinese grammar is primarily interested in the topic (a pen) and not the subject.

4. Aspect, not tense

Another big difference between European languages and Mandarin is aspect and tense. European languages usually indicate both of these things in a sentence, whereas Chinese tends to only indicate aspect.

Tense is about when an action took place relative to now. Aspect is about the completeness of an action relative to when it took place.

I will set off to Beijing.

I will have set off to Beijing.

Both of these sentences are in the future tense. But the aspect is different because the completeness of the action (setting off to Beijing) is different in the time frame of each sentence. The speaker has not yet set off to Beijing in either sentence. In the time frame they are speaking about in the second sentence, though, they will have.

5. Mandarin is logical

One of the joys of studying Mandarin is that on the whole it is a very logical, consistent language. This is very true in vocabulary, as you can usually see the logic behind most words. It is also true in grammar rules, which tend to be consistent and reusable once you have learned them.

One example of this is that Mandarin tends to only indicate things once in a sentence. For example, if the time has already been made clear, it does not need to be mentioned again.

[simoncudd]

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[watch-xchange]

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[womw]

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[dapperdutchdude]

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[spanishrob]

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[haulogerie]

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[swisswatches-magazine]

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[simoncudd]

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[internationalcaballero]

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[relogioserelogios]

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