{"id":2443,"date":"2014-04-03T22:18:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T05:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2018-11-02T05:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:41:06","slug":"the-basic-characteristics-of-modern-chinese-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/learn-chinese-online\/the-basic-characteristics-of-modern-chinese-grammar.html","title":{"rendered":"The Basic Characteristics of Modern Chinese Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grammar is a set of rules in the language for making words and sentences. For example, we have these words \u725b\u8089ni\u00fa r\u00f2u(beef) \u6211w\u01d2(I) \u5403ch\u012b(to eat) \u660e\u5929m\u00edngti\u0101n(tomorrow) \u5b8cw\u00e1n(finish) \u8981y\u00e0o( would like or want) ,we can use these words to make following sentences:<\/p>\n

1\u3001 w\u01d2 ch\u012b ni\u00fa r\u00f2u \uff08I eat beef.\uff09<\/span>
\n\u6211\u5403\u725b\u8089\u3002<\/p>\n

2\u3001 w\u01d2 y\u00e0o ch\u012b ni\u00fa r\u00f2u (I want to eat beef.)<\/span>
\n\u6211\u8981\u5403\u725b\u8089\u3002<\/p>\n

3\u3001w\u01d2 ch\u012b ni\u00fa r\u00f2u le (I ate beef)<\/span>
\n\u6211\u5403\u725b\u8089\u4e86\u3002<\/p>\n

4\u3001 w\u01d2 m\u00edn\u0261 ti\u0101n ch\u012b ni\u00fa r\u00f2u ( tomorrow I eat beef.)<\/span>
\n\u6211\u660e\u5929\u5403\u725b\u8089\u3002<\/p>\n

In these four sentences, the meanings are different, because in the Chinese language, there are many varied syntax and grammar rules.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, the basic grammar rules work in the following aspects :<\/p>\n

1. Less of grammatical morphology .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Viewed from the world language types perpsective, Chinese is an analytic language. In grammatical category expression (like gender, number, case, tense, aspect and voice), the Chinese do not rely on the fixed grammatical form. For example: Chinese nouns don\u2019t have gender differences, The French and German nouns, on the other hand, have the differences of masculine and feminine gender. Moreover, with Chinese pronouns such as \u6211(w\u01d2) , whether it be the subject, object or attribute, there are no morphological differences.The Chinese verb such as\u5403ch\u012b(to eat) , also has no morphological changes .<\/p>\n

w\u01d2 ch\u012b ni\u00fa r\u00f2u ( I eat beef.)<\/span> \u6211\u5403\u725b\u8089\u3002<\/p>\n

t\u0101 ch\u012b ni\u00fa r\u00f2u (she eats beef.)<\/span> \u5979\u5403\u725b\u8089\u3002<\/p>\n

w\u01d2 men ch\u012b ni\u00fa r\u00f2u (we eat beef.)<\/span> \u6211\u4eec\u5403\u725b\u8089\u3002<\/p>\n

zu\u00f3 ti\u0101n w\u01d2 ch\u012b ni\u00fa r\u00f2u le (yesterday,I ate beef.)<\/span> \u6628\u5929\u6211\u5403\u725b\u8089\u4e86\u3002<\/p>\n

However, in modern Chinese, le(\u4e86) \u0261u\u00f2(\u8fc7) zhe(\u7740) be seen as the true sense of formation parts. With the exception of these, there are almost no other Morphological Components.
\nMany foreign students think there are no grammar rules in Chinese, but this is wrong, Chinese is not without grammar rules. Rather, it has a completely different rules set than Indo-European languages<\/p>\n

2. Word order plays an important role to express meaning. The same words with different combinations of the order will express different meanings and grammatical relations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

shu\u00ed d\u014du r\u00e8n sh\u00ed w\u00e1n\u0261 xi\u0101n shen\u0261 (everyone knows Mr wang)<\/span>
\n\u8c01 \u90fd \u8ba4 \u8bc6 \u738b \u5148 \u751f<\/p>\n

shu\u00ed w\u00e1n\u0261 xi\u0101n shen\u0261 d\u014du r\u00e8n sh\u00ed (Mr wang knows everyone)<\/span>
\n\u8c01 \u738b \u5148 \u751f \u90fd \u8ba4 \u8bc6<\/p>\n

w\u00e1n\u0261 xi\u0101n shen\u0261 shu\u00ed d\u014du r\u00e8n sh\u00ed (everyone knows Mr wang or Mr wang knows everyone)<\/span>
\n\u738b \u5148 \u751f \u8c01 \u90fd \u8ba4 \u8bc6<\/p>\n

3. Function words are an important grammatical means in Chinese.,Chinese has a lot of function words, such as prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, particles, modal particle and so on. These function words have an important role for expressing the syntactical and semantic relations. the The Chinese adverb especially is an example of a function word that can make Chinese a difficult language for people to master.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compared with many global languages, the Chinese language has its own uniqueness. By understanding the basic Chinese grammar rules, students will have an easier time learning Chinese and consequently improving the Chinese level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Compared with many global languages, the Chinese language has its own uniqueness. By understanding the basic Chinese grammar rules, students will have an easier time learning Chinese and consequently improving the Chinese level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchchinese.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}