Youssef ELHIRAR
a question about (chinese) Hello all I want to know these things : Teach ----------- teaching help ----------- helping learn ---------- learning talk ----------- talking be ----------- being thank you a lot
Jun 18, 2012 12:20 AM
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hi: In English Teach is mean Simple Tense ,+ing is mean progressive tense ,but in chinese these words mean is the same for examp Teach ----------- teaching chinese mean 教学,教。 help ----------- helping 帮助,learn ---------- learning学习,talk ----------- talkin 说,说话,be ----------- being sometimes chinese mean 是 。 so sometimes English expression way and Chinese is not the same and the grammar is not the same too。 If you want to know more specific meanin,You can use these words Write a word,and English contrast ,You can find different。
June 18, 2012
Your question is not clear. What do you want to know?
June 18, 2012
Are u asking the meaning of these words and their differences?
June 18, 2012
thank you so Ruiqi Wen, you have told me something so interesting to me :)
June 19, 2012
if helping means “sb is helping sb" , then it should be translated to 正在帮助 someone(某人), while help is "帮助某人". So in general, Chinese doesn't have progressive tense, you only need you add "正在" before the verb. And "What r u doing" is “你(you)正在(means progessive tense)做(do)什么(what)?” Likewise, teaching is 正在教, learning is 正在学习, talking is 正在聊天. And we don't really have a specific word for being....normally if we want to say sth is being done, we use 被 to indicate passive voice, so it's like: 正在被+ verb
June 19, 2012
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Youssef ELHIRAR
Language Skills
Arabic, Arabic (Maghrebi), Arabic (Modern Standard), Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Japanese, Spanish
Learning Language
Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Spanish