{"id":15892,"date":"2020-01-13T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-challenging-an-adjective-with-shen-me-shenme\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:21:28","slug":"chinese-grammar-challenging-an-adjective-with-shen-me-shenme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chinese-grammar-challenging-an-adjective-with-shen-me-shenme\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Challenging an adjective with \u4ec0\u4e48shenme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tAdding \u4ec0\u4e48(sh&eacute;nme) to the end of an adjective (or less frequently a verb) can be used to form a rhetorical question. In the phrase \u4f60\u6025\u4ec0\u4e48\uff1f&quot;what are you worried about?&quot;, the speaker is implying that there is no need to be worried.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>N\u01d0 j&iacute; sh&eacute;n me j&iacute; \uff0c h&aacute;i z\u01ceo zhe ne \u3002<br \/>  \t\u4f60\u6025 \u4ec0\u4e48 \u6025\uff0c\u8fd8 \u65e9 \u7740 \u5462\u3002<\/div>\n<div>Why are you so anxious? It&#39;s still early.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tLike in English, &quot;what are you worried about&quot; can be a rhetorical question, and can also be actually inquiring about what exactly the listener is worried about. The same is true in Chinese, so context and tone of voice is important in understanding what the speaker means.<\/p>\n<p>  \tIf the adjective or verb is repeated after the \u4ec0\u4e48 as in the 3rd and 4th example, it acts to give further emphasis. It almost has a tone of incredulity, a bit like &quot;what on earth are you worried\/anxious about?&quot;. Generally only single character adjectives can be used in this way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-853932865\"><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>Adding \u4ec0\u4e48(sh&eacute;nme) to the end of an adjective (or less frequently a verb) can be used to form a rhetorical question. In the phrase \u4f60\u6025\u4ec0\u4e48\uff1f&quot;what are you worried about?&quot;, the speaker is implying that there is no need to be worried.<\/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-15892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":173,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892","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=15892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}