{"id":15711,"date":"2020-01-06T00:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T00:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-the-filler-word-na-ge-neige\/"},"modified":"2020-01-06T00:20:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T00:20:55","slug":"chinese-grammar-the-filler-word-na-ge-neige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chinese-grammar-the-filler-word-na-ge-neige\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: The filler word  \u90a3\u4e2a&#8221;neige&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tSometimes when speaking you may blank out a bit, forget a little word or phrase, and you need something to say while gathering your thoughts. Or maybe you need to stall for a while. Well, the word &quot;\u90a3\u4e2a&quot;\uff08n&egrave;ige) is just what you need.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Basic patterns:<br \/>  \t<\/strong>In English, words like &quot;uhm&quot; and &quot;er&quot; are used as filler words when you&#39;re thinking about what to say. In Chinese, &quot;\u90a3\u4e2a&quot;(n&egrave;ige) is used for this purpose. This can sound a bit unfortunate to English speakers, but it&#39;s very common in Mandarin and you&#39;ll hear it quite often around Chinese speakers.<\/p>\n<p>  \t&quot;\u90a3\u4e2a&quot; can be inserted into sentences wherever you need to pause for thought. This is similar to the slang use of &quot;like&quot; in English, or filler words in general.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples:<br \/>  \t<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>N&agrave;\u0261&egrave;, w\u01d2 b&uacute; h&eacute; n\u01d0men y&igrave;q\u01d0 ch\u012bf&agrave;n le, h\u01ceo m\u0251?<br \/>  \t\u90a3\u4e2a\uff0c\u6211 \u4e0d \u548c \u4f60\u4eec \u4e00\u8d77 \u5403\u996d \u4e86\uff0c\u597d \u5417\uff1f  \t<\/div>\n<div>So. . .uhm, I won&#39;t eat with you guys, OK?<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Zh&egrave; \u0261&egrave; p&iacute;ji\u01d4 y&oacute;udi\u01cen n&agrave;\u0261&egrave;. . . n&agrave;\u0261&egrave;. . .<br \/>  \t\u8fd9 \u4e2a \u5564\u9152 \u6709\u70b9 \u90a3\u4e2a&#8230; \u90a3\u4e2a&#8230;  \t<\/div>\n<div>This beer is a bit. . .uhh. . .well. . .  \t<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-4272045245\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when speaking you may blank out a bit, forget a little word or phrase, and you need something to say while gathering your thoughts. Or maybe you need to stall for a while. Well, the word &quot;\u90a3\u4e2a&quot;\uff08n&egrave;ige) is just what you need.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[22,302,151],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar","tag-in-mandarin","tag-mandarin"],"views":262,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}