Learn Chinese Grammar: Adverbs of Degree (很, 太)
In Chinese, just saying "Tea hot" (Chá rè) feels unfinished and a bit blunt. To sound natural and expressive, we use Adverbs of Degree.
Master the rules and structures that bring clarity to your communication with our clear, step-by-step guides.
In Chinese, just saying "Tea hot" (Chá rè) feels unfinished and a bit blunt. To sound natural and expressive, we use Adverbs of Degree.
Imagine landing in Beijing and needing to tell a driver your hotel's phone number, or making a dinner reservation for "Tuesday at 7:00 PM." Numbers and dates are the "logic" of daily life.
In Chinese, you need a Measure Word (also called a classifier) between the number and the object. It’s a bit like saying "a slice of bread" or "a pair of shoes," except in Chinese, almost every noun needs one!
If you want to talk about your family, your favorite book, or whose coffee you accidentally just drank, you need the most common character in the entire Chinese language: 的 (de). It acts like a little hook that connects people to things, or describes what something is like. Think of it as the 's in "David's car" or a bridge between words. Let's learn how to use it!
Use partitive articles to express unspecified quantities or portions, which are especially common when talking about food, drink, and abstract concepts.
Understand how to point out specific items using the demonstrative adjectives ce, cet, cette, and ces, translating to this, that, these, or those.
Learn how to express ownership in French using possessive adjectives that agree in gender and number with the noun being possessed.
Explore the three main ways to ask questions in French: using rising intonation, adding 'est-ce que', and performing basic subject-verb inversion.
Find out how to make a French sentence negative using the standard 'ne... pas' structure surrounding the conjugated verb.
Learn the present tense conjugations of the most essential irregular verbs in French, such as être (to be), avoir (to have), aller (to go), and faire (to do).