{"id":15613,"date":"2020-01-02T00:17:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T00:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-expressing-existence-in-a-place-with-zai-zai-2\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T00:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T00:17:54","slug":"chinese-grammar-expressing-existence-in-a-place-with-zai-zai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/chinese-grammar-expressing-existence-in-a-place-with-zai-zai-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Expressing existence in a place with \u5728zai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tThe verb \u5728 (z&agrave;i) expresses existence in a place, similar to the English &quot;to be located in&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \tThe verb \u5728 is used to express existence in a place. English does not have a verb that covers this, and instead uses &quot;to be&quot; with a preposition. In Chinese, \u5728 covers both of these.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tRemember that you don&#39;t need another verb in this construction. It can be tempting to try use \u662f, as English uses &quot;to be&quot;, but this is not correct. \u5728 is the only verb needed.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>W\u01d2 z&agrave;i Sh&agrave;n\u0261h\u01cei .<br \/>  \t\u6211 \u5728 \u4e0a\u6d77\u3002<\/div>\n<div>I&#39;m in Shanghai.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2648594766\"><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 verb \u5728 (z&agrave;i) expresses existence in a place, similar to the English &quot;to be located in&quot;.<\/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-15613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":164,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}