5 Basic Chinese Tenses （时态） - Chinese Grammar Simplified 204
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- The way Chinese tenses are expressed are quite different. In this video, we are going to talk about the underlying patterns of the 5 basic Chinese tenses and their signaling characters.
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I teach foreign languages and I can say that this little video is clear, logical carbon-free. The grammar of Mandarin is very straightforward compared with most other languages so this is good news for learners who struggle with the tones of Mandarin and the highly complex system of writing. Thank you!
Ever since this video has been published. I have seen numerous comments criticizing the correctness of my interpretation of Chinese tenses. I have been repeatedly told that Chinese has no tenses; instead we use aspects to express time and action. And many comments clarify that the character 了 Is not a marker of past tense, but instead, an aspect marker to show an action has been completed.
Ignoring some vicious attacks from the trolls, I found many of these comments are academically correct and I appreciate those who are genuinely trying to help others understand the differences between aspects and tenses.
However, the reason I chose to interpret and present this lesson as tenses is because the concept of tenses is more relatable to English speakers than the concept of aspects.
Many textbooks place the academic correctness over the usability and practicality of the information presented. And I believe that is a major flaw of these books that prevent beginner students to get an entry level understanding of the language.
By comparing the Chinese expressions with the English tenses, I try to offer a very clear and easy model for communication. This way, the beginner students can put the model into usage right away. The exceptions to the rules presented here can be later explained and studied in further learning. And that is the purpose of this channel as it is called - Chinese Grammar Simplified.
Furthermore, if we want to get technical, 了 does a lot more than serving as aspect markers. (In patterns lIke 太…了, or 快…了, it appears as mordal particles.) And the traditional grammar doctrine also is not clear in explaining the function of two 了s used in one sentence such as 我吃完了午饭了。Can you say both of them are used to mark the completion of an action? Then why do we need both of them? Through my reflection and practice of teaching, I found it helpful to explain the first 了 as the marker of “completing the action” or an equivalent of past tense, and the second 了 in the end of the sentence as the marker of “change has happened”. But going to all these details again defeat the purpose of simplifying the grammars for the beginners.
This is my final response about this topic.
"vicious attacks from the trolls"..
Maybe you should take a break from MSM.
I dont know but this is really helpful to me, a beginner. I am a teacher of language and i understand that we cannot always be accurate AT THE FIRST TIME. For beginners, things need to be simplified and i completely find this video clear and easy to understand. Of course we will learn more as we keep learning. Thank you, man.
@Twin Cities Chinese Tutor I really want to thank you for this Video. Yes, maybe one could always " dig deeper into it " - BUT - your way to explain it is just perfect for a beginner ! I am not a native english-speaker, but I am learning mandarin through english lessons and explanations and I can only say : YOURS is the BEST I found so far. Now I feel much more confident to start speaking mandarin - THANK YOU!!
Duōxiè . Please keep more Videos coming
I teach German as a foreign language and I am trying to learn Chinese in my free time. Even if ppl say your explanation is not 100% correct - it still helps me a lot to do the grammar transfer from either German or English to Chinese. I think, when u teach languages yourself you are always looking for the grammatical equivalent in the language you try to learn. Your explanation really helped me understand the Chinese grammar system and - even more important- it helped me to actually use the language ( as I am an absolute beginner and always struggle to form sentences) so, thx
Honestly, I am a beginner studying Chinese and your explanation in tenses rather than aspect made it click for me so much faster. Learning this way, I do believe I will eventually transition to using more aspects. Trolls seem to be the students who get frustrated and look for an excuse why they quit learning or the teachers who stink at effectively teaching their students. Well done and I look forward to more of your videos!
This is the best Chinese grammar tutorial video I’ve ever seen.
I teach Arabic and I very much agree with you. Some teachers try to show off giving all the possible information about a certain grammer point. As you, I do believe that for beginners we should give just enough info for them to understand the situation and as time passes by they will get more and more info about the same point. I do the same in Arabic and some other professors tell me that I should give a complete explanation. I don't agree. Too much at a time is not good for beginners. Bravo! Keep on!
@@JimOverbeckgenius The qur'an is not written in MSA. There is the Arabic from the qur'an, there is the Arabic language from the books, news, tv and then there is the dialect. You learn 2 languages if you are living in the Arab world. If you are at a university in Europe or the US, you will learn only MSA. If you are studying the qur'an, you learn the quranic language.
1:17 so weird to see "in 2020" used to indicate the future
He's demonstrating how similar are Chinese grammar and English grammar, but normally, we don't talk like that.
Absolutely perfect, as a beginner I think you explain everything in a superior manner. Thank you so much.
Personally, as an English speaker learning Chinese, I find your lessons very clear and very easy to understand and remember. They stick with me afterwards much better than many others. You are one of my favorite teachers.
These is no very strict grammar rules to express the tense. There are always multiple expressions and many exceptions. The key is make sure the others can understand you base on the context or use some regular expressions.
I’m seeing a lot of, “了 doesn’t represent past tense.” Having I’m only 3 weeks in to my Chinese study, I could care less what it actually means right now. I just need a basic concept to grasp onto for the moment
了 in Chinese is similar to ました, past affirmative statement of an action or a verb.
Yeah, there is a lot of foolish nonsense here. As a native English speaker who is one year into learning Chinese, "了 = past tense" is the absolute best introduction you can get.
Over time I was able to build a deeper knowledge of Chinese grammar, but the simple, "了 = past tense" was one of the most useful and confidence building things I learned in the early days. It made perfect sense to a native English speaker, which was the damn point.
exactly! the only reason people think this is because beginners are taught it in this way to convey a simple description of what the word means. as you advance in your Chinese so will your meaning of “了”
我明天吃了所有我的米饭。 Muahhahahaahhahaa! >:D
@@ALoonwolf 我了解了
This was 100% awesome and utterly straight to the point!!!
wow! this is really useful. I have lots of videos but this one very simple yet informative. Thank you so much!
It's hands down one of the very best videos I have come across - short, simple, informative and fun!
I am afraid your explanation is not correct. What about a sentence like 他来了我们就去看电影。
@@tacianafisac Thank you for your reply and question. Firstly, this is only a 5 min video for some basic cases which could hardly cover every exception for sure, you are right, “了” could also be used in other cases rather than just the past tense, this video only shows a typical example, secondly, based on my understanding, “了” is sometimes an indication for the completion of an action or an action in the past, thus, it’s only a typical case here which is easy for Chinese learner to understand tenses. In your case, I guess it’s like “when he (will have) come, then(就) we set off (together) to the cinema”.
她要吃巧克力just means she wants to eat chocolate,她会吃巧克力 means she can/could chocolate. if you wanna say “she will eat chocolate”you must add the specific time , such as “她明天要吃巧克力”（she will eat chocolate tomorrow)and“她待会儿会吃巧克力”(she will eat chocolate later)
Chinese does have time tense, which reflects in the word before or after the verb , as this video teaches. The only difference with English is time tense in Chinese keeps the verbs all the same ( as shown in the video, the verb eat is forever 吃， regardless the time tense)
English verbs remain the same too except irregular one. For example, the word cook in the past tense (cooked) remains the same, there’s no changes to the word itself or the root. It’s just that the tense suffix is written without spaces. You can think of chinese verbs in like matter.
The way you put it really helps to understand. You are gifted. Thank you so much for putting so much work into this lesson. Keep them coming please.
Love the clarity of the explanations and the examples. Thank you so much.
Terrific job on explaining Chinese grammar in an easy to understand graphic format! Thank you
this video is amazing, i am self-learning chinese, anh this is the best grammar video i have ever watched so far
totally agree!!
This video is also helpful for those Chinese people who wants to learn English.
Absolutely fantastic lesson, thank you!! I lived in China for 15 years and I tried, really tried to learn the language, but I struggled big time lol. So I knew enough to get by day to day, but I never really knew the difference between "不 bù" and " 没有 méiyǒu" until now. So a BIG thank you!!
That's one of the first things I learned ... lol ...
Wow thank you so much! This is the intro primer on Chinese tenses I’ve been needing... delivered in less than 5 minutes! Instant subscriber.
Nice Video.
1. 坐 (Zuò)
2. 做 (zuò )
3. 作 (Zuò)
Please explain all above Zuò in one video. Thanks
Positive Learner
坐: sit
basically, "做" means "making something specific", just like "做文章", "做餅乾".
but "作" is generally described something abstract, especially in idioms.
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commonly seen words:
做事, 訂做, 做工
作弊, 創作, 著作, 工作, 作文, 合作
Positive Learner Don’t bother too much on this question, even many Chinese can’t use 做 and 作 correctly. Basically, 做 is a verb and 作 is a none.
This is the best tutor I’ve ever seen on internet!! You explain it so simple. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this! Easy and fast way to understand how the system works in generally :)
Pls do more videos about tense i think thats one of the problems most people have when they lear chinese. 🤗👍👍
Thomas Reiser Thank you so much for watching and your comments. There will be more to come! Please feel free to share!
Thank you for the video! Your teaching skills are great and easy to understand. Please keep doing your great job. 谢谢老师。你的课很好👍🏻
Wow! Thank you for the video. You have given a clear,concise teaching of the grammar points I have been dealing with for the past month in a single video. Looking forward to more videos from you. Subscribed!
Wow,I could learn Chinese grammar a lot only in this video. Thanks a lot sir❤
Excellent video. Thank you very much for helping to go through my new language learning challenge. I'm so excited and you deserve all the students of the Western World.
I love this video. You made Chinese tenses so easy to understand. It’s quick and straight to the point! Thank you 😊
u are a true artist and making these educational videos thank you such much God bless! Grammar is beautiful and fun in your hands
我是中国人。我们不说“他是2004年的经理”。 Instead, we say“他在2004年的时候是经理。" Likewise, we say 他现在是经理
大哥，我也是中国人。两种说法并没有语法上的正误，只是着重点不同。而且在这里只是表达不要对动词”是“做出变化，只需要增加时间点就可以阐述”时态“的变化。
I experienced that the Chinese language is very easy.
SUPER! This the BEST and ONLY video that has taught me alot in less than 10 minutes! Thanks for sharing!
Glad it helped!
amazingggg I'm like so enlightened right now and is really pumped up to learn further❤❤❤ thank you so much for the video!!!
1.她上个星期去中国。
2.她以前没有访问日本。
3.今天她正在去加拿大。
4.她正在等为她的飞行。
5.她的猫不喜欢旅游。
Wow so so clear explanation . it’s unbelievably great video 🙏🏻
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Just great!!!! I have to congratulate you for your lessons! I just anderstand everything much easier and faster.
Feichang ganxie!!!
The worst mistake of beginners to decide that v+了 is a past tense..
Remember, v+了 IS NOT THE PAST TENSE!!!
This case 了after a verb is an action complete particle!
Well the main function of 了 is change of state like 下雨了 shows that it was sunny, but now it is raining
Don't say that 了 is a "past tense sight" or smth ... It's wrong, makes beginners think that 了 sentences are always about the past, so 我看了电视，就给你打电话了 etc. examples becomes really awkward for them.
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Also You can express continuous with v+着。
谢谢你！
if we write 下雨了，do it mean "it was sunny, but now it is raining" or only" it is raining"? I am so confused right now. Please answer.
in daily occasions,sometimes it means that the rain has begun, but also means someday somewhere rained
下雨了means “it is raining”
must consider the context at the time: [下雨了] can express past,present,future, for example:when you get up and found the ground is wet，you say 【下雨了】means it has rained or it rained yesterday , but more formal and accurate expression should be [下过雨了]or【下了雨】；when you see Raindrops falling down at the time then you say 【下雨了】 means it is raining now；when you see clouds black or begin to feel some water drops on your face, here you say [下雨了] means you predict it and you believe it is probably about to rain,but more accurate expression should be [要下雨了] or【将要下雨了】
Chinese is a Concise language full of abridge and ellipsis
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做得很好！加油！
I'm studying Chinese and today is my 6th day. This video is very helpful ❤️
Although you did a really good job to explain the most common particles to mark the time aspect, yet Chinese time aspect is more complicated than what’s covered here. There are many corner cases which cannot be explained by these simple rules.
Oh really,thx for your information
Thank you so much!
I want to know the pattern of learning Chinese. It makes easier to catch the point. I have been learning Chinese for two years but I get nothing. Your guide is so simple and easy to understand. I really like it.
Really cool stuff. Finally, I get it indetails and understood basic principals of Chinese grammar, inner logic. Thank you!
Hope you will continue to make this videos :)
Your videos are so well presented! Really enjoy the clarity of your explanations. Keep up the good work! 加油！
Unfortunately, he taught the wrong things.
The teacher doesn't teach the right notion on "time aspect" in Chinese. Don't take it thoroughly. It is really misleading.
@@cyber1991 So make a video that teaches the good things instead and link it here. That's how one criticizes properly.
Wow this has probably been the best video I’ve seen about grammar! Thank you so much! I wish I could find videos like this for other languages that I’m also trying to learn xD
I am a native speaker.Your clip is very good,and
i know it is hard to said the tense in chinese .but well, i don't think it's correct , actually we don't say 沒吃了巧克力. We usually say 沒吃巧克力.“沒”means didn't. you don't need to put“了”and “沒”at the same time.
sometimes, we put 過 and 了 in the same sentence.
if somebody asked me,“你吃過巧克力嗎?”, means have you ever eaten chocolate? , but if it is 你吃過巧克力了嗎？or 你吃巧克力了嗎？or 你吃巧克力了沒？ means did you eat chocolate? but if it is 你吃了巧克力嗎？ is much like was that you who ate chocolate.
the answers ：
yes, i have eaten it.
我吃過了
no, i haven't eaten it.
我(還)沒吃（過）
yes, i ate it.
我吃了 or 我吃過了
no, i didn't ate it.
我(還)沒吃
yes ,it was she that ate chocolate.
是她吃了巧克力
the past tense and present perfect tens are not distingushed so clearly in chinese, also it's hard to say when to use past tense and when to use present perfect tense. We have to see the conditions of communication, so read and listen as much as you can(speaking by native speakers is better).This can help you very much. This clip just can give you a roughly concept , there are too much mistakes. Though we may understand if you speak like that way ,but it's just a little bit strange.
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Wow! I just discovered this dude! Very clear explanations. Thank you for sharing!
Great video. The fake writing/drawing hand is totally distracting, but your explanation is really well done. Thanks!
Thank you for your teaching. Which is done in a simple form to understand.I am looking forward to your videos.
love the videos! about "要“ in chinese as a modal/optative verb (signaling characters in your video) only means will+v, not really has the meaning of "want". it is often mixed with its meanings as a verb “want"+a noun (我要+noun, e.g. 我要茶，不要咖啡). Your videos are very carefully and thoughtfully done. I believe many people will learn a lot from your videos, have have fun learning. They are effective! I hope you will make more of those and keep up the accuracy and the clarity. My ultimate goal of teaching is to make the material easy and fun, use comparisons, encourage critical thinking and creativity. Your work is awesome! I have Chinese linguistics background and over 15 years of research and experience in teaching Chinese as a 2nd. language. If there is anything you would like to discuss, please let me know. There are a lot of stuff on youtube or other websites is wrong or confusing. It is a pleasure to find stuff that keeps the high quality like yours.
Liu Laoshi Thank you so much for your endorsement and encouragement. I have been tangled up with a lot of other projects since my last production. I am motivated to release more videos soon! I am happy to have further discussions with you soon. :)
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As you said .. I believe .."Many textbooks place the academic correctness over the usability and practicality of the information presented. And I believe that is a major flaw of these books that prevent beginner students to get an entry level understanding of the language. "
你是 完美的
很有意思👏👍
谢谢你
我一看你的视频就关注你了。真的很容易地理解。
Brilliant teaching technique !
You present this subject very well and clearly to me as a hanyu speaking lao wai. Never mind the wumao.
she was the manager 她曾是经理she is the manager 她是经理she will be the manager 她将成为经理
云麓子 引入“成为”这个词虽然在语意上与原句相符，但是在英文里，“成为”所对应具体含义是to become而不是to be. “曾” 则是以“曾经”这个时间节点为时态标志，与我的说明相符。 “将”则是“会” 或者“要”的替代，但初级口语中用得较少。
I wish I have found this channel a lot earlier. This is very simple and direct to the point. Thank you so much!
Thanx for the concise and clear explanation which makes much easier to absorb.
How on earth u stopped making videos, u are the best teacher and u explain Chinese in a very simple way!!
Sorry, life got in the way and I got lazy...LOL...I will return soon.
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified please do this please, ur videos are so simple!
Great! Your teaching is very clear and it's 'easy for us to have the basic concepts of the Chinese tenses or aspects.
哇!這是我聽過最棒的時態講解課程!
man how wonderful your explanation is!!!
I don't speak english very well. But I'm so happy, I can understand the video and learn a little of Chinese😙
Very helpful and I love the way you explain it. All this effort!!
她吃了巧克力
她吃巧克力了
吃巧克力了她
Free combination!
Spoken Chinese is never limited to grammar!
I am Chinese.
Actually all of your sentences fell in to grammar rules.
1. S V了 O
2. S V O 了
3. VO了，S (倒装)
"了"是個很神奇的字，雖然大部分時候表示過去式，可是說"快到站了"卻不是過去式(只是虛詞)，我覺得學中文的時態很需要靠語感跟習慣，不像英文有固定的動詞變化。
还有“了解”"知了" 还可以作为词语组成部分出现 确实不好分辨。
“了”有很多种含义，文中所谓的“过去式”是表示动作完成。您说的“了”是另一种，表示新情况的产生或者变化。还有一种是表语气，在一些结构中会固定出现，比如“太好看了！”。 另外，中文没有时态的概念，是通过上下语境或者时间词来表示出时间概念的。 比如说“了”不是简单的过去式这点，我可以举出这个反例来证明：“你明天吃了饭以后，就去写作业。”这说的是明天的事儿，是通过明天这个时间词来表达出的，如果要说“了”简单认为有过去式的含义，那就天下大乱了。
yeah it's simplified, when you actually get deeper, there are many exceptions and more ways to express Chinese different tenses. This is just for the beginners.
Very informative Chinese grammar in just a few minutes!
You have a done a great job. 谢谢你！
Thank you for your help ☺️
It is really helpful. Thank you. Tenses are starting step to learn a new language.
很好的课。。。 谢谢你 。。这个插曲是很用。
She was the manager. 她曾经是经理
She is the manager. 她是经理
She will be the manager. 她将成为经历。
The best explanation ever; thank you!
The video is misleading! 了le is not past tense! (That's why you haven't seen other teachers explain it in this way!)
Tks Jo Lan; you are free to find out your way, ok?
Don't worry about how I select my videos...
I heard that!!! You go girrrl!!! And I have heard other teachers during my studies say something similar, if not the same thing. Whether "le" functions as a conceptual way of showing completion, aspect, or something that is in the "past tense", some of us get the general or basic usage, and kudos to him for taking the time to break it down in the simplest way he could in such a short video. And as for as I have seen in research the simple past tense emphasizes that the action is finished. So "finished", to me. means that the action is "completed'. It also appears, to me, that there is a lack of understanding that certain grammatical terms in one language can be parallel to the definitive functions of the words in another language. Hope that made sense to the naysayers, but if it didn't----well, that's just too bad!!! And, Teacher, thanks again for the lesson!!!
Thanks for the great job you’ve done here👍👍 keep up the good work. Your final explanation was great.💪🏼💪🏼
These are great videos. Thanks heaps! Hope you'll continue to make them!
Really excellent. Well done. Thanks
what about 将, how and when is it used, and what is the difference between 会 and 要 , and I heard somewhere that the way to negate 正在 , 在 when used to express continuous was 没 我没在用鼠标器
Misfit 将 works similar to 会 and 要 when you use it to express future activities. However, it sounds too formal in colloquial conversations.
没在 = wasn't doing, it is negating past activities
Twin Cities Chinese Tutor czcams.com/video/8lsNy44anCw/video.html here's what I asked you about 不在 and 没在... when saying someone isn't doing something
非常谢谢
Really useful. Fei chang gan Xie
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Chinese has tense? This is new to me!
Now i like chocolate even more! ha ha ha! Thanx for the great work! 👍
thank you! this was so informative. 谢谢你
Thank you, you clearly explained it in such a simple way.
thank you so much, i really found this video helpful and now i can make sentence of my own.
Thank you
You rocks! Please a vid about subordinate clause in chinese!
Thanks you very match .l can understand all that
love the graphics.. very straightforward & clear.. keep it up! 👍🏼
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Great 👍 thanks
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Thank you so much! It is such a good explanation!
Thank you so much for videos. Its really easy to understand
讲的真好，生动形象
Awesome