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What's the difference between 伤心 and 难过？
What's the difference between 伤心 and 难过？
I know that both mean "sad", but is there any subtle difference?
Thanks!
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What's the difference between 所有、全部都 and 全都
If it's possible could you gve some examples which show the difference between 所有、全部都 and 全都 and explain the usage of each?
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Help with the right version what the Chinese guy is saying
Recently during the lectures we've been listening to "China's Betting Big on Artificial Intelligence. Could the US lose the AI Race?" from YouTube. Certain video sections were in Chinese, ...
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How is 有在 different from just 在?
I recently came across this phrase.
我平時有在運動。
Although this may be basic, I can’t seem to find any explanation for how this combination of 有 and 在 works grammatically. Most of the search results ...
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Difference between 他给妈妈打电话” and “他打电话给妈妈”
I learned that the sentence pattern is A 给 B + something: "他给妈妈打电话”
but recently I saw this 他打电话给妈妈. Are both grammarly correct?
Thanks is advance!
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If A伴随着B, then is it true that B伴随着A?
CC-CEDICT: 伴随 (bànsuí) to accompany / to follow / to occur together with / concomitant
I saw on Tateoba the sentence
闪电常常伴随着雷鸣。
Lightning is usually followed by thunder.
The English sentence ...
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Difference between 地 and 得 in 他很難過[得/地]哭起來了
他很難過得哭起來了
他很難過地哭起來了
Which one is correct? 1 makes sense because 得 is describing the extent of how 難過 he is, but 2 also seems to make sense because 地 is just before the verb 哭. So I'm really confused ...
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usage of 几乎 vs 几乎要
I just spent an hour of class trying to figure out the difference between： "这辆车几乎 撞 到我了" and "这辆车几乎 要撞 到我了". The only differnence is 几乎要 and not 几乎. The teacher kept saying ...
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When to use or skip 的 between two nouns?
Please helpme to understand the grammatical difference when using or skip 的 between two nouns。 What I know is that 中文, 西班牙 and 书 all are nouns. But in some cases thy become attributes
Case a) 中文书 ...
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If 为, meaning 'for...', takes the reading [wèi] why, in the following examples, is [wéi] being used?
I had learned that 为 'for the purpose/sake of' took the reading 'wèi'. However, I have seen several instances of 'wéi' being used to mean the same thing. Are these readings interchangeable or is 'wéi' ...
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Can somebody please help me to parse the phrase, '挑起满满的一担...'?
Google translates, '挑起满满的一担粮食' [tiǎoqǐ mǎnmǎn de yī dān liángshi] as, '...pick up a full load of...', but when I attempt to translate this phrase manually, using the pinyin given in the source ...
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What's the difference between 这本词典是老师的吗? and 这本是老师的词典吗?
I wonder if there is a difference between these two sentences a) 这本词典是老师的吗? and b) 这本是老师的词典吗? Are they grammatically correct? thanks!
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What is the difference between 把握and 掌握in Chinese
In college we were asked that questions and I couldn't get any answers till now
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What is the difference between using 在做，要做 or just only 做 in this sentences
pronun + 在做什么?
pronun +明天在做什么？
pronun +明天要做什么
pronun +明天做什么？
pronun + 做什么?
Please, help me to understand the subtle differences between these sentences.
As in cases 4) and 5)
Can I use the 做 straight ...
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What's the difference between 出来/起来?
please tell me what is the difference between the 哭出来 / 哭起来 and with other actions (not Direction)
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