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🇨🇳 Chinese — Grammar Explained

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Pinyin and the four tonesLesson 1 是 (shì) — to beLesson 2 Pronouns + negation + the 吗 questionLesson 3 的 — the possessive / modifier particleLesson 4 Numbers, 几, and 岁Lesson 5 Number + measure word + nounLesson 6 Time words and the calendarLesson 7 在 (zài) — at, in, onLesson 8 有 (yǒu) — possession and existenceLesson 9 想 (xiǎng) and 要 (yào) — both 'want'Lesson 10 了 (le) — completed action and change of stateLesson 11 Putting events in orderLesson 12 能 / 会 / 可以 — picking the right 'can'Lesson 13 比 (bǐ) — comparing two thingsLesson 14 Adjective predicates and degree adverbsLesson 15 Saying how long an action lastsLesson 16 Verb + result — sticking outcomes onto actionsLesson 17 Direction + perspective — 来 toward me, 去 away from meLesson 18 会, 要, 打算 — picking the right 'will'Lesson 19 就 (jiù) and 才 (cái) — the speaker's stopwatchLesson 20 把 (bǎ) — pulling the object in front of the verbLesson 21 被 (bèi) — the affected-subject passiveLesson 22 因为 / 所以 / 由于 / 既然 / 之所以...是因为...Lesson 23 一边...一边... / 不但...而且... / 虽然...但是... / 不仅...也...Lesson 24 是 ... 的 — focusing the time, place, or manner of a past eventLesson 25 Verb + result, expanded — 完, 好, 到, 懂, 会, 见 and where 了 sitsLesson 26 Compound directionals — and what they mean when nobody's actually movingLesson 27 V + 得 / 不 + complement — built-in 'can' and 'can't'Lesson 28 比 + amount, 没有 ... 那么/这么 + adj, 跟 ... 一样 + adjLesson 29 离合词 — V-O compounds that split when something else slots inLesson 30 了 / 过 / 着 / 在 — the four aspects of MandarinLesson 31 就 (jiù) and 才 (cái) — speaker's stance on timing and difficultyLesson 32 又 X 又 Y / 越 X 越 Y / 一 X 就 Y — fixed paired markersLesson 33 让 / 叫 / 请 / 使 / 令 — pivotal causative constructionsLesson 34 Modal verbs — obligation / permission / ability / volitionLesson 35 Numbers in the wild — big numbers, hedges, ratios, and repeatsLesson 36 Saying 'for X amount of time' — and the V了…了 sandwichLesson 37 Paired conjunctions for argument and conditionLesson 38 Coverbs and prepositions — what they really map toLesson 39 Focus and emphasis — extreme cases, total negation, surprise timingLesson 40 Chengyu — what they are, why they matter, and how to use them without sounding like a textbookLesson 41 AA, AAB, AABB, V一V, V着V着 — the many faces of Chinese reduplicationLesson 42 在, 正在, 着, 起来 — distinguishing progressive, durative, and inchoativeLesson 43 越来越 + adj, 越 X 越 Y, and the comparative ecosystemLesson 44 Spoken-Chinese discourse markers — what they signal and how to use themLesson 45 Hearsay and source-marking — 听说, 据说, 据 X 说, 据 X 来看Lesson 46 各 + measure, 各 X 各 Y, and 互相 + V — distributive and reciprocal patternsLesson 47 Causation, consequence, topic-framing — the formal-register connector toolkitLesson 48 Classical Chinese (文言) survivals — what to recognize when you readLesson 49 What you've learned, what to keep — and how to actually get fluent from hereLesson 50

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