{"id":15739,"date":"2020-01-07T03:36:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T03:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-lai-used-to-connect-two-verb-phrases\/"},"modified":"2020-01-07T03:36:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T03:36:42","slug":"chinese-grammar-lai-used-to-connect-two-verb-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chinese-grammar-lai-used-to-connect-two-verb-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: &#8220;lai&#8221; used to connect two verb phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tThe word \u6765 (l&aacute;i) can be used to connect two verb phrases, relating the actions to each other. It can be translated as &quot;in order to&quot; or &quot;so that&quot; and it can help in explaining reasoning in Chinese grammar.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong><br \/>  \tConnecting two verb phrases is very easy. All you need to do is place \u6765 in between them. This has the meaning of doing the first verb to achieve the second verb. Often used with words expressing a way or a method, e.g. &quot;\u901a\u8fc7&quot;&quot;\u7528&quot;  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>W\u01d2 men k&eacute; y\u01d0 t\u014dn\u0261 \u0261u&ograve; d\u01ce zh&eacute; l&aacute;i x\u012b y\u01d0n \u0261&ugrave; k&egrave;.<br \/>  \t\u6211\u4eec \u53ef\u4ee5 \u901a\u8fc7 \u6253\u6298 \u6765 \u5438\u5f15 \u987e\u5ba2\u3002<\/div>\n<div>We could have a sale in order to attract customers.<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1173585728\"><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>The word \u6765 (l&aacute;i) can be used to connect two verb phrases, relating the actions to each other. It can be translated as &quot;in order to&quot; or &quot;so that&quot; and it can help in explaining reasoning in Chinese grammar.<\/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-15739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":224,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739","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=15739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}