{"id":15637,"date":"2020-01-03T00:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-not-very-with-bu-tai-bu-tai\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T00:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:24:23","slug":"chinese-grammar-not-very-with-bu-tai-bu-tai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-grammar-not-very-with-bu-tai-bu-tai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: &#8220;Not very&#8221; with \u4e0d\u592a &#8220;bu tai&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tYou may be familiar with using &quot;\u592a&quot;(t&agrave;i) to express &quot;too&quot; in the sense of &quot;too expensive.&quot; There&#39;s a similar pattern in the negative, which just means &quot;not very&quot; or &quot;not so&quot; (literally &quot;not too&quot;). Note that this pattern does not normally use &quot;\u4e86&quot; (le).<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \tNote: This pattern can also be used with non-adjectives. See below for more info.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples:<br \/>  \t<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 b&uacute; t&agrave;i \u0261\u0101ox&igrave;n\u0261.<br \/>  \t\u4ed6 \u4e0d \u592a \u9ad8\u5174\u3002  \t<\/div>\n<div>He is not too happy.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure with Modal Verbs:<br \/>  \t<\/strong>This pattern can be used with modal verbs (e.g. \u4f1a, \u80fd) as well as psychological verbs (e.g. \u559c\u6b22, \u5d07\u62dc), as in the next two examples.<\/p>\n<p>  \t  \t<strong>Examples:<br \/>  \t<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 b&uacute; t&agrave;i xi\u01cen\u0261q&ugrave;.<br \/>  \t\u4ed6 \u4e0d \u592a \u60f3\u53bb\u3002  \t<\/div>\n<div>He doesn&#39;t really want to go.  \t<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-581175319\"><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>You may be familiar with using &quot;\u592a&quot;(t&agrave;i) to express &quot;too&quot; in the sense of &quot;too expensive.&quot; There&#39;s a similar pattern in the negative, which just means &quot;not very&quot; or &quot;not so&quot; (literally &quot;not too&quot;). Note that this pattern does not normally use &quot;\u4e86&quot; (le).<\/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-15637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":180,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637","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=15637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}