They will go to the United States tomorrow. “She got up at 7 in the morning.” is translated as “她在早上在七点起床。” One difference from English is that Chinese doesn’t a preposition before the time words. To express when an action or an event occurs, we can put the time words immediately after the subject. As in the example, “me” plays the role of a “direct object” and “Chinese” plays the role of an “indirect object”.īesides “教” (to teach), other verbs that can occur with indirect objects include “给” (to give), “告诉” (to tell), “借” (to lend), etc.Ĭan you lend me your car? 3. The direct object represents what is being transferred as a result of the action, and the indirect object denotes who is being affected by that action. In order to express “She teaches me Chinese”, we need to add two objects after the verb. Subject + Verb + Direct Object + Indirect Object We can put “不” or “没有” before the verb to express a negative meaning and “吗” at the end of the sentence to form questions. The word order is normally the same as in English. This is the easiest type of sentence in Chinese grammar. In the following, we will introduce the top 5 basic and most commonly-used sentence patterns in Chinese. Most often, we only see part of the whole structure. These components of the structure don’t necessarily come together in a single sentence. Complement – to what extent an action is done.Where - the place where an action took place.When - the time when an action took place.The golden rule is: Subject + When + Where + How + Action + Complement And knowing these structures will enable you to converse more efficiently in Chinese. In fact, Chinese is a highly pattern-based language that needs grammar exercises. Having said that, it doesn’t mean Chinese has no grammar.
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