{"id":15783,"date":"2020-01-08T23:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T23:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-positive-and-negative-potential-complements\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T23:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T23:43:42","slug":"chinese-grammar-positive-and-negative-potential-complements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chinese-grammar-positive-and-negative-potential-complements\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Positive and negative potential complements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tVerbs can take potential complements that indicate whether or not the action is actually possible. They are useful in Chinese to say if an action can take place.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong><br \/>  \tPotential complements can be positive or negative. What this means is fairly intuitive &#8211; potential complements can be used to express that something can happen or that it can&#39;t.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tHere the complement is the second part of the potential complement after \u5f97 (positive) or \u4e0d (negative)<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>W\u01d2 t\u012bn\u0261 b&ugrave; d\u01d2n\u0261.<br \/>  \t\u6211 \u542c \u4e0d \u61c2\u3002<\/div>\n<div>I can&#39;t understand.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tNote that the potential complement and degree complement can sometimes appear to be the same; the difference can usually be seen from context.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3488666658\"><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>Verbs can take potential complements that indicate whether or not the action is actually possible. They are useful in Chinese to say if an action can take place.<\/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-15783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":236,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783","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=15783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}