{"id":15771,"date":"2020-01-08T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-doing-something-less-with-shao-shao\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T11:55:34","slug":"chinese-grammar-doing-something-less-with-shao-shao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/chinese-grammar-doing-something-less-with-shao-shao\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Doing something less with \u5c11shao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tOften heard when scolding or giving advice (like when parents talk to children) is \u5c11 (sh\u01ceo) in Chinese grammar, which can mean &quot;to do less of something.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong><br \/>  \tJust as you can use \u591a to talk about doing something more, you can use \u5c11 to talk about doing something less.  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \tNote that in English we don&#39;t use the word &quot;less&quot; so much. For example, rather than saying &quot;drink less water,&quot; we might say &quot;don&#39;t drink so much water.&quot; In Chinese, though, using \u5c11 is quite natural and common. Avoiding the negative command (telling someone not to do something) is also a subtle way of sounding less bossy and annoying.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>N\u01d0 y\u012bn\u0261 \u0261\u0101i sh\u01ceo ch\u014du y\u0101n \uff01<br \/>  \t\u4f60 \u5e94\u8be5 \u5c11 \u62bd \u70df\uff01<\/div>\n<div>You should smoke less!<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3878311740\"><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>Often heard when scolding or giving advice (like when parents talk to children) is \u5c11 (sh\u01ceo) in Chinese grammar, which can mean &quot;to do less of something.&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-15771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":238,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771","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=15771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}