10 Must-Know “Verb + Complement” Phrases in Chinese

[@thesmithtopher2000]

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[@josephmak0865]

Hilarious at 8:59 literally roll away 滾開! Love your little role play clips. I also love the way you insert little movie clips so your audience can see the words in action.

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This is helping. It's an easy way to learn. Lessons aren't long. She's a great teacher. Love seeing the words used in snap shots of films and her own acting. Visually seeing words in action makes learning chinese easier. ❤

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[@ollieanntan4478]

What an enlightening video. I especially love learning about words or phrases that don't have an exact English translation. It helps me see the world from a new perspective. Someday, could you do a video on how to express romantic love? I'd love to be able to tell my partner in Chinese how much I love him.

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@10:42 你說“我的男朋友想要跟我分手”可是字體上少了個“要”字。I offer this “critical” feedback because I sense that, as a perfectionist, you would want to know what your students notice. For three years now I have been a devoted fan of your channel. I am really quite impressed by how you get the most out of the platform: your drawings, visualizations, enactments (I'll never forget how to use 滾 now) clips from movies and TV shows the video editing together with you mastery of linguistics. So many skills coming together, you've become a model for how language instruction on KZbin can work. 加油

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

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[@jacobsaavedra8677]

In my opinion, verbs are the most important aspect of any language! Whether it's visible or not, done by a living or non-living force, verbs convey so much meaning!

[@saniafaiz]

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[@plaidygami]

Thanks for this lesson! This is super helpful! Also I like the movie sequences included to demonstrate examples.

[@photo200]

『看開』是個很好的詞，我很喜歡。英文我們有時候會說 let go of 或 let go 來表達這個意思。

[@magdolnavida2717]

Very good video,Grace, thank you for your time and effort! ❤ it's very useful for me,because I began to learn Mandarin all by myself at home with simplified characters, later I felt I needed a teacher and found a school which was Taiwanese so I learnt traditional characters at school and continue learning at home with simplified...so once again, thank you for your hard work to use both characters for us!❤

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[@richtea87]

So helpful! Keep up the great work, Grace!

[@MGS2151.]

我真的很感激你为让我们学习新单词所做的一切，乐于助人的香奈儿。

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The queen has returned 🙌

[@Transcendent_Jil]

Trying to learn Chinese to connect with my ancestors 😄✨✨ We were seperated from our ancestors around 1400-1500 B.C. during the Tang-Shang Dynasty.

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[@francesca7014]

好好用的！感謝妳喔☺️

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

不客氣！😉

[@TheBrownieQueen]

Thank you for the informative video! It would be great to have more videos with other verb compliments. In particular the ones I have trouble with are 得住/不住, 得下去/不下去, and 得了/不了.

[@valovanonym]

Xiexie laoshi! I'm gonna practice these

[@genace]

It’s only been a few weeks of being busy and it already feels like I‘ve forgotten so much😭 This video is very informative though, so this helps. Thank you! btw I hope your tooth is feeling better now too

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Hi Josh! I can feel that you've been busy recently, but don't stress about it! It's easy to forget things when we have a lot on our plate. I'm happy that the video was helpful for you, and thank you for asking about my tooth - it's doing much better now😎

[@genace]

@@GraceMandarinChinese Thank you so much for your encouragement, Grace! I really appreciate it. And I’m very glad to hear that your tooth is better now too!🙂

[@ollieanntan4478]

Thanks Grace, your videos are both funny and helpful!

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you for the support! ✨

[@麗麗-k2h]

Can you more verb complement videos? I think that’s the hardest part about learning Chinese!

[@MainYotubeacct]

老师 谢谢你 你辛苦了

[@adrielalves531]

nice video!!!!!

[@xx-en8uf]

老师啊，我一点儿帮你🎉 3:45 clothes is pronounced as cloth-s, not cloth-es. I don’t mean to criticise I hope this helps 💛多谢Grace 🙏🏾

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

謝謝你！（谢谢你）I always mix up its pronunciation 🥺 Thank you for the reminder!

[@demonhead]

you can use have for sentence 2 and 3

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

English tenses are so hard... lol

[@x_jaydn]

A good English equivalent for 看開 and 想開 might be the orthodox usage of the verb: "to cope (with)" 🤔

[@luckytai-lan2166]

I need to study a little bit of Mandarin because I want to visit Taiwan this year.

[@nomore2379]

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[@saniafaiz]

Very nice sister stay connect

[@Nath_davey]

Just a quick question i always thought to take off clothing above the neck was 摘 zhai and below the neck was 脱 tuo but watching this you say 脱下你的帽子 I though it should only be 摘下你的帽子 but in the military or royalty when you remove your hat isn't it a saying 脱帽

[@limbeiyee1478]

2:30

[@bragiodinsen4604]

is there any good way to know the literal meaning of characters from chinese english dictionaries? i feel like sometimes the literal meaning is sandwiched between a bunch of interpreted meanings and it makes learning new words harder. i wish people understood how important literal meanings are for second language learners, i had the same problem when i started learning german. so 做 is easy, it means to do, or make (two concepts which are often related in languages). 到 means up to. so 做到 means literally to do something until a point (always to the end probably). now i dont know how its actually used in chinese, but this literally isnt to achieve. to achieve in english usually means you not only finished something, but you did it with good results that were uncertain or unexpected. now maybe this is what 做到 truly means, but the literal meaning alone is telling me it means something more like to pull through, to finish, to see it through. now those two characters were easy to look up, but more often than not ill look up a character which probably has a simple literal meaning but it lists so many things i have trouble knowing which one is supposed to be the "root" meaning. but this is just me complaining. whoever makes cross language dictionaries should always mark 1, 2, at most 3 clear simple literal meanings at the top of the entry.

[@proudwhovian5161]

I can kind of understand where you are coming from with your “request” for a simple “literal” translation - but there are a few major flaws with this mindset. First, it assumes a 1 to 1 correlation between Chinese words and English words. There are words from both languages that simply don’t have exact translations in the other language, and there are concepts built in to single words in Chinese that would take several words to express in English - I’m sure this is true in reverse too. Second, it assumes that there is a singular “true” meaning for each Chinese word. This just isn’t true as many, many Chinese words carry several “true and correct” meanings depending on context and use. And third, it assumes that each multi-character word in Chinese has a meaning that is directly tied to the meanings of each individual character that it is comprised of. Chinese is a logical language, so this is true to an extent, it isn’t universal and you’ll find many many multi-character words whose meanings vary quite a bit from the meanings of each root character. My advice, unsolicited as it is, is to try to let go of the idea that each word or phrase in Chinese can be directly translated into English with a simple 1 to 1 correlation and try to just grasp how the words/phrases are used in the Chinese language.

[@warabimochi1111]

I am starting to learn Chinese, but it is very difficult to pronounce correctly. Please tell me about how to memorize pinyin. In Japanese 馬(马)、麻、摩→ma In Chinese 马→mǎ、麻→má、摩→mā I can't distinguish them... I subscribe this channel and want to have a good command of Chinese.

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Here is a video about Chinese tones: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJCmm2aXhLh8Z9k I hope it helps!

[@warabimochi1111]

@@GraceMandarinChinese Thanks to your video, I learn to distinguish Chinese tones. However, I have no idea which characters have a rising pitch or a falling pitch. Is there any regularity? 麻→ má,mā,mǎ,mà？？？

[@sinamark-com]

I have trouble remembering time - Xia and Shang Tian. So as time passes, we go from sun high in sky to sun low in sky (we are not talking about morning). So Xia Tian is tomorrow, whereas Shang Tian is yesterday?

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[@hoangthanh0210]

Can you share with me some Chinese exclamations?

[@chineselearning9583]

Hi, I've got a question. Why are certain words (with the same pronunciation and I guess similar meaning) written with different characters? For example 開 and 开. What's the difference?

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

One is traditional characters and the other one is simplified ones. Here is a post on this topic: ai.glossika.com/blog/differences-between-traditional-chinese-and-simplified-chinese I hope this clears up your confusion!

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@@GraceMandarinChinese Thank you, I'll check it

[@jasons6368]

9:00 LOL

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[@limbeiyee1478]

2:3O

[@woodies2009]

Haha, I couldn't help laughing at the story that happened to you in hospital😂

[@NickvonZ]

Taiwan Virgo Power!!!!!!

[@InspectorA-r2e]

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[@dvonnwilcher9276]

3:47 in the word "clothes" dont pronounce the "th"... its pronounced the same as "close" (: 加油哦

[@DANGJOS]

2:09 "Where had she gone?" Who talks like that?

[@RunningCarl]

你很美

[@Shelly-qp6og]

脱帽子还是摘帽子？

[@tanchongsoo3114]

Maybe can say, "get lost" instead of "f**k off" which is very rude and crude.

[@ElijahNapier-h8g]

闭嘴啊😂

[@MishimaToshiro]

Video starts at 3:03

[@JimOverbeckgenius]

42 characters at 11:42 + the same in Pinyin + English! Aaaagggghhhh! + many of them not explained! Please keep it simple = how do I say for fuck's sake in Mandarin!?

[@limbeiyee1478]

2:31