Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar
nuMberS 6.6 6.6.3 decimals Decimals are recited as a series of single digits and zeros after a decimal point. The decimal point ...
Fractions, percentages, decimals, half, and multiples 6.6 6.6.5 Indicating multiples of a quantity with 倍 bèi 倍 bèi is a classif ...
nuMberS 6.8 To find out how much of a discount there is, you can ask: 打几折?/打幾折? Dǎ jǐ zhé? How much discount is there? C 28 6.7 ...
numbers that are used as words 6.10 7’s and 8’s 乱七八糟 亂七八糟 luàn qī bā zāo a mess/disorganized 七上八下 qī shàng bā xià be in an unset ...
7 Specifiers and demonstratives 这/這 zhè and 那 nà have two functions. They can be used as demonstratives, or words that are used ...
这儿/這兒 zhèr and 这里/這裏 zhèlH ‘here,’ 那儿/那兒 nàr and 那里/那裏 nàlH ‘there’ 7.3 7.2 这/這 zhè, zhèi ‘this/these’ and 那 nà, nèi ‘that/those ...
SPecIFIerS And deMOnSTrATIveS 7.4 When they are not the subject, 这儿/這兒 zhèr ‘here’ and 那儿/那兒 nàr ‘there’ must be preceded by the ...
8 Classifiers 8.1 The structure of phrases involving classifiers A classifier is a word that occurs between the specifier and/or ...
cLASSIFIerS 8.2 Noun Classifier Noun phrase 书/書 本 三本书/三本書 shū běn sān běn shū book volume three books 纸/紙 张/張 一张纸/一張紙 zhǐ zhāng ...
choosing the classifier 8.2 8.2.2 classifiers that indicate a property of the noun Some classifiers indicate a property of the n ...
cLASSIFIerS 8.4 8.2.3 个/個 gè, the general classifier The most commonly used classifier is 个/個 gè. It is used with many different ...
Money and prices 8.5 8.5 Money and prices In Chinese, money and prices are expressed as noun phrases. The units of money, dollar ...
cLASSIFIerS 8.5 To ask how many dollars, dimes, or cents, say: 几块钱?/幾塊錢? jǐ kuài qián? how many dollars? 几毛钱?/幾毛錢? jǐ máo qián? ...
9 noun phrases A noun phrase consists of a noun and any words that describe or ‘modify’ the noun. Here is an example of a noun p ...
nOun PhrASeS 9.2 specifier + number + classifier + noun 那 三 个 人 那 三 個 人 nà sān gè rén those three people 哪 三 个 人 哪 三 個 人 nǎ sān ...
Modifying a noun with all other modifiers: modification with 的 de 9.2 9.2.1.2 Modifiers that are pronouns Modifier Head noun Nou ...
nOun PhrASeS 9.2 9.2.1.6 Modifiers that are verb + object Modifier Head noun Noun phrase 唱歌儿 女孩子 唱歌儿的女孩子 唱歌兒 唱歌兒的女孩子 chàng gēr n ...
noun modifiers in a series 9.4 9.3 Omission of the particle 的 de The particle 的 de is sometimes omitted from the modifier. 的 de ...
nOun PhrASeS 9.6 Noun modifiers involving specifiers and numbers often occur first in a sequence of modifiers, though they may a ...
Modification with 之 zhC 9.6 Time phrases and sequence 之后/之後 zhīhòu ‘after’ (以后/以後 yǐhòu) 三年之后 三年之後 sān nián zhīhòu three years a ...
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