When we think about Chinese, we often think first of characters. But Chinese is much more than what we see on the page. Beneath those characters is a language with a remarkably structured sound system, a unique grammar, and its own way of organizing meaning.
Continue reading “The 10 Keys to Chinese: How the Language Works from Within”Category: Conjunctions
Chinese conjunctions are used to connect words and words, phrases and phrases or sentences and sentences to express certain logical relationship.
Chinese conjunctions are very important because they can express Coordinate, connection, transition, cause and effect, choice, comparison, concession, assumption, condition, disjunctive etc..
| 纵使 | 纵令 | 纵然 | 再说 | 虚词 | 至于 |
| 至若 | 至乎 | 至如 | 只有 | 只要 | 至乃 |
| 致使 | 自然 | 再不 | 于是乎 | 于是 | 又且 |
| 与其 | 由于 | 因而 | 因为 | 以致 | 以至 |
| 要是 | 以及 | 以下 | 以为 | 虚字 | 焉乃 |
| 勿然 | 万一 | 无论 | 忘其 | 亡其 | 倘然 |
| 倘使 | 所以 | 顺推 | 庶几 | 顺接 | 是故 |
| 是以 | 甚至 | 设或 | 设若 | 便乃 | 便做 |
| 别管 | 不然 | 不论 | 不怕 | 不拘 | 不仅 |
| 不但 | 不过 | 不管 | 不料 | 诚然 | 词类 |
| 除非 | 但凡 | 从而 | 等到 | 当使 | 分句 |
| 而亦 | 而乃 | 尔其 | 而且 | 反而 | 而况 |
| 否则 | 固然 | 故尔 | 果然 | 或曰 | 或是 |
| 或者 | 何况 | 及至 | 及以 | 既然 | 即使 |
| 假借义 | 加以 | 加之 | 尽管 | 借如 | 借令 |
| 尽管 | 借使 | 就是 | 可是 | 况乎 | 况于 |
| 连絶 | 况且 | 哪怕 | 乃至 | 譬如 | 丕则 |
| 丕乃 | 且夫 | 然则 | 然而 | 任凭 | 如其 |
| 如果 |