Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook (2nd Edition)

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responding to compliments 59

result or extent of a situation 32.7

resultative complements see resultative verbs

resultative verbs 18, 32

right ਩䗯/਩䛀 yòubian (and other location

words) 47.1, 47.2

rúguw ྸ᷒ if 45.3, 45.5

satisfaction 60.1, 60.3, 60.4

self, oneself (reflexive pronoun) 㠠ᐧ zìjv 5.1,

15.3, 39.7, 46.6

sentence final Ҽ le see change; new situations

sentence final particles 56.1, 56.2

sequence 18.7, 25.1, 25.4, 37.2, 42

shéi 䈷/䃦 who? 28.8, 28.10, whoever, no one

46.2, 46.3, 46.6

shénme ӶѾ/⭐哳 what? 28.8, 28.10,

whatever, nothing 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 46.5, 46.6

shénme dìfang ӶѾ൦ᯯ/⭐哳൦ᯯ where?

28.8, 28.9, 28.10, wherever, nowhere 46.3,

46.6

shénme shíhòu ӶѾᰬُ/⭐哳ᱸُ when?

28.10, 49.4; whenever, never 46.2, 46.6

shì ᱥ 11.3, 29.1, 30.2 see also shì... de

ᱥĊⲺ

shì... de ᱥĊⲺ 37.9, 48.5, 57.5, 57.6

shìfwu ᱥੜ yes or no 28.3

should see obligations

should not see prohibitions

similarity жṭ/ж⁙ ycyàng (comparison)

33.1, 33.5

simplified characters see Chinese characters

simultaneous situations 43

so, therefore suóyv ᡶԛ 44.1, 44.2, 44.5

social obligations see obligations

spatial orientation see location

specifiers and demonstratives 7.1, 7.2, 8.1,

8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

stative verbs 11.1, 11.2, 11.3

suggestions 30.5, 45.4, 54.2, 54.3, 56.2

suqrán 㲳❬/䴌❬ although 41.1, 41.3, 41.4

suóyv ᡶԛ so, therefore 44.1, 44.2, 44.5

superlative ᴶ zuì 33.6, 33.7

sympathy 63.2, 63.3

ttngruò َ㤛/㤛ݱ if 45.4

telecommunications and internet

communications 26

telephone etiquette 26.2

telephone numbers 6.2, 26.1

temperature (weather) 30.4

terms of address 22.1

there see specifiers and demonstratives

therefore, so suóyv ᡶԛ 44.1, 44.2, 44.5

there is, there exists see existence

these/those and this/that see specifiers and

demonstratives; noun and noun phrase

tì ᴵ see prepositions and prepositional

phrases

time calendar 34.1, 36.1, 49.3, 49.4, 49.5;

clock 49.1, 49.2, 49.6; telling time 49.1;

time when 4.3, 4.4; see also simultaneous

situations

time when 4.3, 4.4, 34.1, 35.2, 35.3, 36, 49.4,

49.7

titles 22.1

to (preposition) 14.1–14.3, 48.1–48.4

tones and tone changes (tone sandhi) 1.1, 1.2,

2.1

tóngshí ੂᰬ/ੂᱸ simultaneous situations

43.5, 43.6

topic and topicalization 57.1

traditional characters see Chinese characters

under see location

unless 䲚䶔 chúfpi 45.1

verbs, action 13; adjectival 10; modal 12;

stative 11

verb suffixes, 䗽/䚄 guò 13.1, 17.2, 17.3,

17.6, 37.6, 37.7, 39.6; Ҽ le 13, 17.1, 17.2,

17.5, 17.6, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 37.6,

37.7, 39.6; ⵶/㪍 zhe 13.5, 34.2, 34.3, 39.5

wtng ᖶ towards 14.1, 48.1, 48.2, 48.3, 48.6

weather 30.4

wedding congratulations 64

weeks 6.3, 37.1, 39.2, 49.2, 49.4

wèile ѰҼ/⡨Ҽ due to, because of 44.3, 44.5,

44.6

wèi shénme ѰӶѾ/⡨⭐哳 why? 28.9, 28.10,

44.4

welcoming a guest see guest and host

what ӶѾ/⭐哲 shénme 28.8, 28.10

when, marker of simultaneous situations

Ⲻᰬُ/Ⲻᱸُ de shíhou 43.1, 43.2, 43.5;

question word ӶѾᰬُϋ/Ӷ哲ᱸُϋ

shénme shíhou? 28.10, 49.4

where ϋݵଠ/ϋވଠnfr? ӶѾ൦ᯯϋ/⭐哲൦ᯯϋ

shénme dìfang 28.8, 28.9, 28.10

which ଠϋ/ଠϋnf? 7.2, 46.3

who 䈷ϋ/䃦ϋshéi? 28.8, 28.9, 28.10

why Ѱ⭐Ѿϋ/⛰⭐哳ϋwèishénme? 28.9,

28.10, 44.4