{"id":15670,"date":"2020-01-04T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T08:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-expressing-excessively-with-tai\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T08:23:48","slug":"chinese-grammar-expressing-excessively-with-tai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-grammar-expressing-excessively-with-tai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar:Expressing &#8220;excessively&#8221; with &#8220;tai&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tThe simplest structure for expressing too in the sense of excessively in Chinese uses the word \u592a (t&agrave;i).<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \tAs in English, this can express that something really is excessive, or can colloquially express the meaning of so or very. Note that in Chinese, you can say &quot;\u592a\u597d\u4e86&quot; which just means &quot;very good&quot; (whereas in English the phrase &quot;too good&quot; sometimes makes it sound like there&#39;s reason for suspicion).<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"width:517px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>  \t\t\t\tSubject<\/th>\n<th>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u592a<\/em><\/th>\n<th>  \t\t\t\tAdjective<\/th>\n<th>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u4e86<\/em><\/th>\n<th>  \t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/th>\n<th>  \t\t\t\tTranslation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u4ed6<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u592a<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u91cd<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u4e86<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u3002<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\tHe is too heavy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u7c73\u996d<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u592a<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u5c11<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u4e86<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u3002<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\tThere is too little rice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u5927\u8c61<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u592a<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u5927<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u4e86<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u3002<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\tThe elephant is too big.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u4f60<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u592a<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u597d<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u4e86<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u3002<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\tYou are &quot;too good&quot; [so great].<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u4ed6<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u592a<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u9ad8<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u4e86<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u3002<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\tHe is too tall.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u5c0f\u732b<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u592a<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\u53ef\u7231<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t<em>\u4e86<\/em><\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\t\uff01<\/td>\n<td>  \t\t\t\tThe panda is too cute!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>  \tNote for the more advanced learner: This pattern can be used with modal verbs (e.g. \u4f1a, \u80fd) as well as psychological verbs (e.g. \u559c\u6b22, \u5d07\u62dc) to intensify the degree.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-621955309\"><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 simplest structure for expressing too in the sense of excessively in Chinese uses the word \u592a (t&agrave;i).<\/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-15670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":195,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670","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=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}