{"id":15774,"date":"2020-01-08T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-simultaneous-tasks-with-yi-bian-yibian\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:44:03","slug":"chinese-grammar-simultaneous-tasks-with-yi-bian-yibian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-grammar-simultaneous-tasks-with-yi-bian-yibian\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar:  Simultaneous tasks with \u4e00\u8fb9yibian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tMultitasking is vital to life in the modern world (most likely you are reading this article on a separate tab among many in your browser!), therefore it would make sense to learn a way to express simultaneous tasks in Chinese!<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong><br \/>  \tTo express that one thing is done whilst doing something else, the word \u4e00\u8fb9 (y\u012bbi\u0101n) is used.  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \tNote that you sometimes see \u4e00\u8fb9 shortened to \u8fb9 as well, which has a less formal feel.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>W\u01d2 y&igrave; bi\u0101n k&agrave;n di&agrave;n sh&igrave;, y&igrave; bi\u0101n ch\u012b d\u014dn\u0261 xi.<br \/>  \t\u6211 \u4e00\u8fb9 \u770b \u7535\u89c6\uff0c\u4e00\u8fb9 \u5403 \u4e1c\u897f\u3002<\/div>\n<div>I watch TV while I eat something.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tNote that you must be actively doing both actions. That is, they have to be intentional. If you want to say something happened while another thing was happening, it would be better to use &quot;\u7684\u65f6\u5019&quot;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1813530089\"><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>Multitasking is vital to life in the modern world (most likely you are reading this article on a separate tab among many in your browser!), therefore it would make sense to learn a way to express simultaneous tasks in Chinese!<\/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-15774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":1647,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774","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=15774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}