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Alissia Jackson
Date : 2009-02-24 / 02:34AM
Ni hao, I was wondering how you would make an word end in -ing or – ly. For example, “tapping” “gently” Xie xie!! :)
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Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-08-05 Language : None Posts : 0 Responses : 411 Comments : 2 |
| | Thu hotmail.com
2009-02-24 / 11:16AM | | en..It seems a bit complicated.
-ing, we usually add “zheng4 zai4” or sometimes do nothing.
e.g. I am reading= wo zheng zai kan shu.
-ly, in Chinese, we add “地” at the end of a word. e.g. “gao xing de”, “kuai le de” .
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Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-01-01 Language : English, Mandarin Chinese Posts : 0 Responses : 2359 Comments : 75 |
| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2009-02-24 / 03:36PM | | Jenny is right, the present tense in Chinese is a structure which is (zhèng) zài + Verb. "Zhèng“ could be omitted.
As for -ly we put the word “dì 地” after the adjective.
That’s how we differentiate the adjective and adverbs
Benny
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