{"id":15652,"date":"2020-01-03T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-negation-of-past-actions-mei-meiyou-mei-he-mei-you-2\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T15:11:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:11:43","slug":"chinese-grammar-negation-of-past-actions-mei-meiyou-mei-he-mei-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-grammar-negation-of-past-actions-mei-meiyou-mei-he-mei-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Negation of past actions mei\/meiyou\u6ca1\u548c\u6ca1\u6709"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tUse \u6ca1\u6709 (m&eacute;iy\u01d2u) to negate past actions (to say that someone didn&#39;t do something, or something didn&#39;t happen).<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color:blue;\">  \t<span style=\"color:#000;\"><var><strong>Structure<\/strong><\/var><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>  \tUsually verbs can be negated with \u4e0d, but that construction is used for habitual or present actions. If the verb is about an action in the past, though, \u6ca1\u6709 should be used:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>W\u01d2 m&eacute;iy\u01d2u h\u0113 n\u01d0 de p&iacute;ji\u01d4.<br \/>  \t\u6211 \u6ca1\u6709 \u559d \u4f60\u7684 \u5564\u9152\u3002<\/div>\n<div>I didn&#39;t drink your beer.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tNote that you can shorten \u6ca1\u6709 to just \u6ca1:  \t<\/p>\n<div>W\u01d2 m&eacute;i q&ugrave;.<br \/>  \t\u6211 \u6ca1 \u53bb\u3002<\/div>\n<div>I didn&#39;t go.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tRemember that \u4e86 is not used with \u6ca1\u6709. \u4e86 marks completed actions, whilst \u6ca1\u6709 is used for actions that didn&#39;t happen. These two don&#39;t work together. This is a very common mistake for Chinese beginners, so be sure to be attentive to it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3437211763\"><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>Use \u6ca1\u6709 (m&eacute;iy\u01d2u) to negate past actions (to say that someone didn&#39;t do something, or something didn&#39;t happen).<\/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-15652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":426,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652","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=15652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}