{"id":15775,"date":"2020-01-08T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-expressing-duration-of-inaction\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:51:09","slug":"chinese-grammar-expressing-duration-of-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/chinese-grammar-expressing-duration-of-inaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Expressing duration of inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tSaying how long you have done something is pretty simple in Chinese. Saying how long you have not done something is just as easy.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong><br \/>  \tExpressing how long something has not been done is slightly different to expressing the duration of an action.<br \/>  \t  \tSo now the duration comes right after the subject and \u4e86 is at the end of the sentence. The verb has to be negated with \u6ca1, as the action hasn&#39;t happened.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 men li\u01cen\u0261 ti\u0101n m&eacute;i ch\u012b f&agrave;n le.<br \/>  \t\u4ed6\u4eec \u4e24\u5929 \u6ca1 \u5403\u996d \u4e86\u3002<\/div>\n<div>They haven&#39;t eaten for two days.<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-254332061\"><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>Saying how long you have done something is pretty simple in Chinese. Saying how long you have not done something is just as easy.<\/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-15775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":343,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775","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=15775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}