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Eric Thomas
Date : 2008-11-14 / 03:17PM
Hey! Benny I have more questions for you? In one of teachings on YouTube you say that yào means : To want but there’s a website called www.yellowbridge.com This website says that xiāng/xiàng means to want too! Could you tell me the difference and maybe where I could find an online list of chinese verbs? PLEASE!!
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| | Agata / 天舞 interia.pl
2008-11-14 / 08:21PM | | Hi! :)
Both of these verbs can mean “want”, depending on the context. However there is a difference.
When you say: “Wo yao mai yi ben shu” you mean that you want to buy this exact book, you need it and know when you will purchase it.
When you say “Wo xiang mai yi ben shu” means that you want to buy the book, but maybe don’t have the money at the moment or want to look around some more and your mind is not quite set yet; this verb is less precise.
Remenebr that YAO also means “should” or “need”, while “XIANG” can mean “to think”, depending on the context. Hope this helps somehow.
Here you can read more examples with those 2 verbs: http://www.nciku.com/search/all/examples/%E8%A6%81
http://www.nciku.com/search/all/examples/%E6%83%B3 | |
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| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2008-11-14 / 09:16PM | | To be simple, ’Xiǎng" means would like to which is more polite than “yào”
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