{"id":15830,"date":"2020-01-10T22:13:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-expressing-every-with-mei-mei-and-dou-dou\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T22:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:13:41","slug":"chinese-grammar-expressing-every-with-mei-mei-and-dou-dou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chinese-grammar-expressing-every-with-mei-mei-and-dou-dou\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Expressing every with \u6ca1mei and \u90fddou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \t&quot;\u6bcf&#8230;\u90fd&#8230;&quot; (m\u011bi&#8230;d\u014du&#8230;) is a pattern used to express &quot;every&quot; when talking about a quantitative amount. This is similar to how we say &quot;every day I eat cereal&quot; or &quot;every student passed the exam&quot; in Chinese grammar.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Using \u6bcf&#8230;\u90fd to mean &quot;every&quot; <\/strong><br \/>  \tUsing \u6bcf and \u90fd together is pretty simple.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tNote is that if the number is simply just &quot;one&quot;, then it&#39;s usually omitted.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 m\u011bi \uff08 y\u012b \uff09 ti\u0101n d\u014du sh&agrave;n\u0261 b\u0101n.<br \/>  \t\u4ed6 \u6bcf \uff08\u4e00\uff09 \u5929 \u90fd \u4e0a \u73ed\u3002<\/div>\n<div>He works every day.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tJust make sure that when you went to express &quot;every one&quot; with \u6bcf, as in &quot;every day I take a nap&quot;, don&#39;t forget the \u90fd! Sometimes you don&#39;t necessarily need it, but when in doubt, just use it to be safe! \u90fd can also be used to say &quot;both&quot; if there are only two things being referenced. It&#39;s possible to think of this as being &quot;all two&quot; of something, even if that sounds somewhat weird in English. It&#39;s just how Chinese says &quot;both&quot;, by using the same word that it uses for other, larger numbers as well.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Using \u6bcf and \u90fd when focusing on a certain action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \tIn this grammar structure, we focus on every time a certain action is done, like &quot;every time he speaks I can&#39;t understand him.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 m\u011bi c\u0101n \u0261u\u0101n y&iacute; \u0261&egrave; d&igrave; f\u0251n\u0261 d\u014du y&agrave;o p\u0101i zh&agrave;o.<br \/>  \t\u5979 \u6bcf \u53c2\u89c2\u4e00\u4e2a \u5730\u65b9 \u90fd \u8981 \u62cd\u7167\u3002<\/div>\n<div>Every time she visits some place, she takes photos. <\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1768669642\"><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>&quot;\u6bcf&#8230;\u90fd&#8230;&quot; (m\u011bi&#8230;d\u014du&#8230;) is a pattern used to express &quot;every&quot; when talking about a quantitative amount. This is similar to how we say &quot;every day I eat cereal&quot; or &quot;every student passed the exam&quot; 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-15830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":787,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830","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=15830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}