Bored or Boring - How to Express Them in Chinese

Ever wondered how to distinguish between saying 'I'm bored' and 'I'm boring' in Chinese? In English, adjectives ending in '-ed' or '-ing' help us tell the difference, but how do we do that in Chinese? Tune in to find out!
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00:00 Introduction
01:11 Expressing "-ed" adjectives in Chinese
05:08 Expressing "-ing" adjectives in Chinese
10:24 The meaning of 他很無聊 (他很无聊)
12:27 Recap
13:43 Thank you for watching to the end!
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[@muu9531]

Your Engilsh has improved greatly from what it was four years ago! I can tell how much efforts you've put... RESPECT you🎉

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you! Filming more than 100 videos in English has definitely helped me improve my speaking skills a lot. 😉

[@arghc]

I don't know if it was fashionable slang 25 (!!) years ago, but a university student of my acquaintance would say things like "I'm so tired I'm broken" (wo lei huai diao le

[@oGsZeroFourZero]

it's just "wo lei huai le"

[@RomanandSharon]

Nice! Very helpful for Roman 🤗

[@sraddhapadharmacari5898]

這些說明真的非常有用。謝謝老師！

[@sar-z]

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[@Laukiepaukie]

謝謝老師。看到妳的影片讓人感到幸福

[@genace]

I always hear Chinese speakers mix up bored/boring in English, but it never crossed my mind until now how to clearly express these in Chinese. Thanks Grace. Awesome video!😀 I also like how you explained which words are casual or formal. Have you ever considered this a video topic? I sometimes wonder about some differences between how native speakers speak and how they write school papers.

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

That's a great idea! Thank you so much Josh! ☺

[@BewildeRic1102]

great video again Grace老師講解得真的很清楚，每次看都會發現一些以前沒注意過的思考盲點

[@hiddenknowledge6333]

能成为你在KZbin上的学生, 我感到很荣幸

[@Philip_023]

Congrats on your english skills. I'd like to see more of the part-by-part translation in 4:50, that really helps me understand what each words mean in a sentence. Video is clean and easy to understand. Really good!

[@BewildeRic1102]

IKR that part-by-part really helps people tell the structural difference between languages

[@StratosFair]

This was so helpful ! Thank you

[@guang-wen]

Another banger of a video, as always

[@PauloMartins-xg3kf]

Obrigado Grace pelas aulas 💯😘Paulo 🇧🇷

[@user-so6eo6pg9v]

非常有意思，谢谢

[@konosaka1910]

A very important lesson.

[@dietrichdietrich7763]

I been waiting for this! Xie Xie.

[@hwerlznptsk2663]

This really is not as big a deal as many English speakers make it out to be. We do the same thing in English: "I'm cold" could mean either you're feeling cold or you're a cold person. This happens with a lot of adjectives, but we have no problem communicating because the context makes things obvious. What's really bewildering is how some people just can't seem to accept that certain distinctions made in your own language does not necessarily carry over to others (duh)

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[@GraceMandarinChinese]

謝謝🥰

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You are wonderful today👩‍🏫 ❤️🤗👍👌🌻

[@salvadorsanchez5057]

is there a verb for "be bored" or "become bored"? in Spanish we have "aburrirse", but i feel like in chinese adjectives often dont need an auxiliary word. so for instance if i want to say "if i get bored one day..." would "如果有一天我無聊..." sound fine/natural? or would i have to add 變得 like “如果有一天我變得無聊..."

[@rubicon24]

the first construction can be ambiguous and is really dependent on context to mean either "if I'm bored one day..." or "if I'm boring one day...". otoh, the second construction is unambiguously "if I feel bored one day..."

[@user-el1xf9xj2k]

3:29 4:02 5:33 6:10 7:14 让人（/令人）觉得（/感到） 8:41 累人 9:12 烦人 9:30 感人 10:00 气人 10:22 伤人 10:37 11:21 11:46 他很无聊 12:22 懒惰

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Thank you so much for the support!🌟 I'm glad to hear you caught this video early. I hope you have an amazing day ahead!

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@@GraceMandarinChinese oh of course silly you're absolutely welcome😄 & I hope you have a even more amazing day!

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能看到Grace的教學影片,我很感恩 5:33 那位得到很少薪水的失望小伙子很面善.. 是上次請你幫他簽個字的delivery guy !

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

哈哈你還記得！

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如此俊美令人難忘

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[@AngelMorales-qn8bf]

Careful with “she really touched me” though 🤭. We wouldn’t say that due to the sexual meaning it may have. “What she said was really touching”, off the top of my head I can say is more natural, there are probably better options. Anyway great video Grace I learned a lot!

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Ahh I see! Thank you for the reminder!

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应该反过来：你花时间教我们中文，我令人特别幸运！谢谢

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不对。。。你花时间教中文令人我很幸运。😅

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我还想看到发音时的嘴部动作，所以我想看一个仅嘴部的特写场景作为发音模型。

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Hello Grace!! can you make a video about Taiwanese words used in Taiwanese mandarin please 謝謝你😊

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you for the suggestion! ☺

[@GeorgeKiousis]

what about “感觉”？is it the same like 感到？

[@xxxxxxxxxxx67508]

I also want to know

[@GeorgeKiousis]

can we use the structure we learned for 无聊? :他让人很无聊 =he is boring

[@chaunguyen2239]

next should be a lesson for good adjective to describe human/character

[@peters8699]

7:15 這一段我其實有笑出來了，女方被男方敷衍的称赞后的反应有点可怕呀哈 好像再说 “Yes, I have trained you well 😏”

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

哈哈哈對😂

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Waah~

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Simp

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4:21 Did anyone else hear a faint but clear “eMOtioNAL DAMage!” in their head? 😂

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[@yazars]

Embarrassing story: once someone asked me something like 你無聊嗎 (Nǐ wúliáo ma) and because I didn't know the phrase, I thought they were asking me if I wanted to chat (聊天/Liáotiān). Whoops! 😂

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

😂 Maybe they were asking “你無聊嗎” thinking that if you're bored, they'd want to chat with you haha

[@SJ-dl6uc]

all my MDZC's know this one

[@ericab3919]

Well I learned you can say 不怎麼樣 to mean not good lol.

[@mysabahTV]

Mandarin: 他很无聊 West Malaysian: 他很闲 Sabah Chinese: 他很e-ah

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I learn Chinese plz help me

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What is your age?

[@Exp-se9rs]

很令人满意？ 令人很满意？

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结婚了么？

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want to kiss you somuch!