{"id":15860,"date":"2020-01-12T04:37:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T04:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-comparing-cai-cai-and-jiu-jiu\/"},"modified":"2020-01-12T04:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T04:37:21","slug":"chinese-grammar-comparing-cai-cai-and-jiu-jiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-grammar-comparing-cai-cai-and-jiu-jiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Comparing \u624dcai and \u5c31jiu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tBoth \u624d (c&aacute;i) and \u5c31 (ji&ugrave;) are adverbs that have to do with expressing time, and they are both placed in front of the verb. However, they both have a different tone and feel, and they express different lengths of time.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>\u624d<\/strong><br \/>  \t\u624d expresses that the speaker thinks that the the time that passed since the action takes place was a long time. Sometimes it expresses anxiety, impatience, anger etc.<br \/>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 ch&iacute; d&agrave;o le b&agrave;n \u0261&egrave; xi\u01ceo sh&iacute; c&aacute;i l&aacute;i \u3002<br \/>  \t\u4ed6 \u8fdf\u5230 \u4e86 \u534a \u4e2a \u5c0f\u65f6 \u624d \u6765\u3002<\/div>\n<div>He came a half an hour late.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>\u5c31<\/strong><br \/>  \t\u5c31\u3000expresses that the speaker thinks that the time since the action happened is short, and it has a surprise, unexpectedness, or even sometimes regret.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>N\u01d0 men zh&egrave; me z\u01ceo ji&ugrave; xi&agrave; b\u0101n le\uff1f<br \/>  \t\u4f60\u4eec \u8fd9\u4e48 \u65e9 \u5c31 \u4e0b\u73ed \u4e86\uff1f<\/div>\n<div>Why are you guys leaving work so early?<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>\u5c31 is used to express earliness <\/strong><br \/>  \t\u5c31 indicates that something has occurred earlier than expected<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 xi&agrave; w\u01d4 s&igrave; di\u01cen ji&ugrave; ch\u012b w\u01cen f&agrave;n \u3002<br \/>  \t\u4ed6 \u4e0b\u5348 \u56db\u70b9 \u5c31 \u5403 \u665a\u996d\u3002<\/div>\n<div>He ate dinner at four in the afternoon.<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3463499652\"><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>Both \u624d (c&aacute;i) and \u5c31 (ji&ugrave;) are adverbs that have to do with expressing time, and they are both placed in front of the verb. However, they both have a different tone and feel, and they express different lengths of time.<\/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-15860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":393,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860","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=15860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}