{"id":15728,"date":"2020-01-06T16:49:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-expressing-lateness-with-cai-cai\/"},"modified":"2020-01-06T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:49:23","slug":"chinese-grammar-expressing-lateness-with-cai-cai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chinese-grammar-expressing-lateness-with-cai-cai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar:Expressing lateness with \u624d&#8221;cai&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tOne of the ways to express lateness in Chinese is with \u624d (c&aacute;i) in Chinese grammar.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong><br \/>  \tTo express that something happened later than expected, you can use \u624d.<br \/>  \t  \tIn English this might be expressed with &quot;as late as&quot; or &quot;not until&quot;. This form is often used with a time number of some sort, like a specific time, age etc.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 &egrave;r sh&iacute; b\u0101 su&igrave; c&aacute;i n&aacute; d&agrave;o ji&agrave; sh\u01d0 zh&iacute; zh&agrave;o .<br \/>  \t\u4ed6 \u4e8c\u5341\u516b \u5c81 \u624d \u62ff\u5230 \u9a7e\u9a76\u6267\u7167\u3002<\/div>\n<div>He didn&#39;t get his driver&#39;s license until he was 28.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tNote that verbs following \u624d cannot take \u4e86\uff0cas the action does not have the sense of being completed. So, in the above situation, it is wrong to say:  \t<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1296103838\"><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>One of the ways to express lateness in Chinese is with \u624d (c&aacute;i) in Chinese grammar.  \tStructure<br \/>\n  \tTo express that something happened later than expected, you can use \u624d.<br \/>\n  \t  \tIn English this might be expressed with &quot;as late as&quot; or &quot;not until&quot;. This form is often used with a time number of some sort, like a specific time, age etc.<\/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],"class_list":["post-15728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":206,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728","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=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}