{"id":14838,"date":"2020-03-02T18:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=14838"},"modified":"2020-03-03T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T08:05:10","slug":"mandarin-future-using-yao-and-hui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/mandarin-future-using-yao-and-hui\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin Future Using Yao and Hui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tThe two auxiliary verbs, y&agrave;o and hu&igrave;, can be used for talking about the future in the sense of &quot;going to do something&quot; or &quot;intending to do something.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  \tConsider these two sentences:<\/p>\n<p>  \tW\u01d2 y&agrave;o q&ugrave; B\u011bij\u012bng.<br \/>  \t\u6211\u8981\u53bb\u5317\u4eac\uff61<\/p>\n<p>  \tW\u01d2 hu&igrave; q&ugrave; B\u011bij\u012bng.<br \/>  \t\u6211\u6703\u53bb\u5317\u4eac\uff61<br \/>  \t\u6211\u4f1a\u53bb\u5317\u4eac\uff61<br \/>  \tThe first sentence, using y&agrave;o, indicates an intention to go to Beijing. The second sentence, using hu&igrave;, indicates a confident prediction of going to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>  \tINTENTION OR PREDICTION<br \/>  \tThe two sentences above can be translated as:<\/p>\n<p>  \tW\u01d2 y&agrave;o q&ugrave; B\u011bij\u012bng.<br \/>  \tI am going to Beijing.<br \/>  \tor<br \/>  \tI want to go to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>  \tW\u01d2 hu&igrave; q&ugrave; B\u011bij\u012bng.<br \/>  \tI will go to Beijing (I expect I will go to Beijing).<br \/>  \tY&agrave;o is sometimes (but not always) used with a time expression to differentiate between want and intend. When used without a time reference, the only way to determine the exact meaning of y&agrave;o is by context or clarification.<\/p>\n<p>  \tHere are some more examples:<\/p>\n<p>  \tN\u01d0 y&agrave;o m\u01cei sh&eacute;nme d\u014dngx\u012b?<br \/>  \t\u4f60\u8981\u8cb7\u751a\u9ebc\u6771\u897f?<br \/>  \t\u4f60\u8981\u4e70\u4ec0\u4e48\u4e1c\u897f?<br \/>  \tWhat are you going to buy?<br \/>  \tor<br \/>  \tWhat do you want to buy?<\/p>\n<p>  \tN\u01d0 hu&igrave; m\u01cei sh&eacute;nme d\u014dngx\u012b?<br \/>  \t\u4f60\u6703\u8cb7\u751a\u9ebc\u6771\u897f?<br \/>  \t\u4f60\u4f1a\u4e70\u4ec0\u4e48\u4e1c\u897f?<br \/>  \tWhat do you expect to buy?<\/p>\n<p>  \tCh&eacute;n xi\u01ceojie m&iacute;ngti\u0101n y&agrave;o g\u0113n w\u01d2 shu\u014d.<br \/>  \t\u9673\u5c0f\u59d0\u660e\u5929\u8981\u8ddf\u6211\u8aaa\uff61<br \/>  \t\u9648\u5c0f\u59d0\u660e\u5929\u8981\u8ddf\u6211\u8bf4\uff61<br \/>  \tMiss Chen is going to speak with me tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>  \tCh&eacute;n xi\u01ceojie m&iacute;ngti\u0101n hu&igrave; g\u0113n w\u01d2 shu\u014d.<br \/>  \t\u9673\u5c0f\u59d0\u660e\u5929\u6703\u8ddf\u6211\u8aaa\uff61<br \/>  \t\u9648\u5c0f\u59d0\u660e\u5929\u4f1a\u8ddf\u6211\u8bf4\uff61<br \/>  \tMiss Chen expects to speak with me tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2901983548\"><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 two auxiliary verbs, y&agrave;o and hu&igrave;, can be used for talking about the future in the sense of &quot;going to do something&quot; or &quot;intending to do 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":[2871,2853],"tags":[151,1425],"class_list":["post-14838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brief-intro","category-spoken-chinese","tag-mandarin","tag-re-exam"],"views":850,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}