Word order in Chinese sentences The main characteristic of Chinese grammar is that it lacks of morphological changes in person, tense, gender, number, and case in the strict sense. The word order, however, is very important to convey different grammatical meanings. The subject of a sentence is usually placed before the predicate. For example: 汉语的语序 汉语的主要特点是缺少在人称,时态,性别,数量或在严格意义上的形态变化。汉语的语序对表达语法意义非常重要。句子的主语通常放在谓语前,例如:
Subject |
Predicate
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你 nǐ |
你 hǎo 。 |
我 wǒ |
很好。 hěn hǎo 。 |
力波 lì bō |
也很好。 yě hěn hǎo 。 |
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