Tawala Jr
How to make TENSES in Chinese? Hi guys again! Thank u very much for your answers and explanations. As u can see, there are a lot more questions to come... he he he. Thanks again for ur time!
Apr 10, 2010 6:55 AM
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we use adjunct words to make tense in Chinese instead of adverbials of time, just as the sencond floor and the third floor said. Chinese is a kind of Isolated language(Indo-European family such as English is a fusional language/inflecting language which make tense by the inflection of words) Isolated language, also known as root of words or language, which is characterized to express the syntax such as tense not by morphological changes within the word, but by function words and word order. I suggest you to buy a grammar book which explain it very clearly.
April 11, 2010
时态。Tipical words are like "着,了,过,已经” and so on."着”just means the behavior is happening,namely the presentcontious tense;"了,已经”just means something being finished,pefect tense;"过”means past tense.In all,it tells us the time behavior happens(happened……)。   Not like English,Chinese always don't have forms changing when the tenses changed.
April 11, 2010
Hello Tawala, Surhurt's explanation is more than sufficient, but I am not sure you do read Chinese Hanzi that well to understand. I will explain it simply in English. In Chinese language as you already know ,there are no tenses formed by the modification of the verb itself. It is always one form and tense without any alteration even in regard of the pronouns as well. Tenses are detected by the context of the sentence and the other adverbials of time used to refer to the present ,past or future. When you say " now , today, everyday" it will indicate the present tense. If you used " yesterday , the day before, last month etc... " it will refer to the past tense. The same goes for " tomorrow, next week , in one year .." ,where the future tense is obviously denoted. If an earlier event or year is mentioned,you will surely know the actions are past. If the speech is about things one wishes to do or plans to accomplish, the future tense is implicitly referred to. There are words used to indicate the past tense such as "guo" and "le". They are not always or necessarily used ,but they mean "already" ,which indicates the action is already done. My explanation might not be sufficient ,but hopefully it gives you an idea about TENSES in Chinese .
April 10, 2010
我不专业...方法 :1 .直接用时间状语的,比如"昨天":明天""将来" 2.在用修饰词修饰动词,比如"吃过饭"中的"过","好了"中的"了" 3.使用"已经""还没有"表示事态. ways: 1. use adverbial of time as a symbol, e.g,"tomorrow明天""yesterday昨天""将来 in the future" 2,use words to modify verbs. e.g."have" in "have had lunch""吃过饭"中的"过","好了"中的"了" 3.use "already已经""not yet还没" 来表示. 以下摘自维基百科: 时态 汉语中动词没有时态的变化,而时态也不如英语中那么分明和强烈,通常是通过时间状语和一些“时态词”(如原来、曾经、了、掉、完成、将、正在、已经、开始、结束等)来表示动作的时态。 [编辑] 现在时 该时态是最常见的,同于英语,不用加上时间状语和“时态词”。 例: 这个网站是维基百科。 运动员跑步。 他名叫“徐庶”。 [编辑] 过去时 对过去的动作描述多加上时间状语或“原来”“曾经”等时态词。 例: 这个网站过去不是维基百科。 运动员昨天下午在跑步。 他曾经名为“单福”。 [编辑] 将来时 对未来的动作描述多加上时间状语或“将”“要”等时态词。 例: 这个网站将成为全球最大的百科全书网站。 运动员明天跑步。 他要更名为“徐元直”。 [编辑] 进行时 对进行中的动作描述多加上时间状语或“正在”“正”“在”等时态词。 例: 这个网站正在成为全球最大的百科全书网站。 运动员目前正在跑步。 他正着手于改名为“徐元直”的手续。 [编辑] 完成时 对完成的动作描述多加上时间状语并加上“完成”“已经”“了”等时态词。 例: 这个网站已经成为了全球最大的百科全书网站。 运动员跑完了。 他已经改名叫“徐元直”。 [编辑] 时态的组合 同于英语,以上时态可以进行组合。 例: 这个网站昨天已经成为了全球最大的百科全书网站。(过去完成时) 自两年前以来,这个网站正在成为全球最大的百科全书网站。(过去进行时) 当时就知道这个网站将成为全球最大的百科全书网站。(过去将来时) 这个网站直到现在还是全球最大的百科全书网站。(现在完成进行时) 运动员还在跑步。(现在完成进行时) 他叫徐庶已经三年多了。(现在完成进行时) 他去年更名单福后又要改成叫徐元直。(过去将来时) 运动员说他们将要跑步。(过去将来进行时) 运动员要开始跑步了。(将来进行时) 他将要做的事情是去将名字改成徐元直。(过去将来进行时) 明天这个时候,他将去办理更名叫徐元直的手续。(将来进行时) 明天这个时候,他将更名叫徐元直。(将来完成时) 运动员将在一个钟头后跑完。(将来完成时) 运动员一个钟头后还会继续跑下去。(将来完成进行时) 庞士元和诸葛孔明说他明年还是会名叫徐元直。(过去将来完成进行时) 到三点钟时运动员就跑了一个小时二十分钟了。(过去将来完成进行时) 到2020年,这个网站会继续保持成为全球最大的百科全书网站的历史最长时间记录。(过去将来完成进行时) ……不一一类举,汉语中对时态的需求并不如英语那般正式和迫切,只需要将事件描述清楚,不必在乎到底是什么时态。相反的,过分在乎时态会导致描述的不准确。
April 10, 2010
Hi,guy, what do you mean ?
April 10, 2010
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