In mandarin Chinese, the majority of the adjectives can act as attributes and predicates. This is to say, the majority of Chinese adjectives can modify nouns and serve as predicates. Those who are not of the majority are the adjectives that can only modify nouns. These adjectives are called 非谓语形容词 non-predicate adjectives. Continue reading “Non-predicate adjectives 非谓语形容词”
Characteristics of Chinese adjectives
Chinese adjectives have very unique features. Here are the distinguished characteristics of Chinese adjectives: Continue reading “Characteristics of Chinese adjectives”
Word formation in Chinese
As we have studied how Chinese characters are formed, we will study how Chinese words are formed in this post.
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Chinese radicals are used for classifying the characters in dictionaries for people to retrieve them easily. Are you looking for the complete list of Chinese radicals? There are three different versions of radicals. Continue reading “list of Chinese radicals 中文部首大全”
Formation of Compound words
Compound words account for about 80% of Chinese vocabulary. Learning compound words will accompany you all the time in the process of learning Chinese. Studying the formation of compound words will undoubtedly help you enlarge your Chinese vocabulary and understand the internal structure of Chinese words.
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