Chinese grammar is logical, structural and simple. And to be completely honest, Chinese language structures make more sense to me than grammar rules of other languages\u2014English included.<\/p>\n
From measure words to basic sentence structures, learn all the key grammatical elements of the Chinese language system in this guide.<\/p>\n
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Let’s start with something easy and familiar.<\/p>\n
Nouns in Chinese are the subjects and objects in sentences. In other words, a noun can carry out an action or have an action happen to it.<\/p>\n
Be aware that nouns don’t need to be preceded by articles like “the” and “a\/an,” since articles don’t exist in Chinese<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Another thing to look forward to with Chinese nouns is that they lack grammatical genders. You can take a breath now that you don’t have to worry about words being masculine or feminine!<\/p>\n Plurals are yet another element that doesn’t exist\u00a0for Chinese nouns, or at least not in the way it does in English.<\/p>\n Chinese characters don’t change in structure to indicate plurality<\/strong>. Instead, more characters are added to create a plural meaning, which you’ll learn more about in the “Numerals” and “Classifiers or Measure Words” sections of this post, and in this full blog post on the topic:<\/p>\n 3 Easy Ways to Use Plurals in Chinese<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nGender<\/h3>\n
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