Chinese-Verbs

All you need to know about Chinese Verbs, Special Verb Constructions

Serial Verb Constructions

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This is a basic feature of Chinese grammar. Here two or more verbs are concatenated together. In this feature, also known as verb stacking, serial verb construction typically manifests itself in two ways: verbal complements, which appear after the main verb, and coverbs, which appear before the main verb.

Verbal Complements

The active verb of a sentence is essentially suffixed with a second verb. This indicates the result of the first action, or the direction in which it took the subject.

Complement of Result

Chinese Verbs

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The word order for the Chinese language, much like the English language is SVO (subject-verb-object). Hence Chinese sentences more often have exact equivalents in English language.

Stative verbs 

A stative verb expresses quality or conditions. In Chinese a stative verb is used where in English one would use the verb ‘to be’ with an adjective. For instance, in tā hěn máng (he is very busy) máng  is a stative verb and means to be busy.

Possessive de