{"id":15879,"date":"2020-01-12T23:51:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T23:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-comparing-yi-hou-yihou-and-hou-lai-houlai\/"},"modified":"2020-01-12T23:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T23:51:44","slug":"chinese-grammar-comparing-yi-hou-yihou-and-hou-lai-houlai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-grammar-comparing-yi-hou-yihou-and-hou-lai-houlai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Comparing \u4ee5\u540eyihou and \u540e\u6765houlai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tWhile both \u4ee5\u540e (y\u01d0h&ograve;u) and \u540e\u6765 (h&ograve;ul&aacute;i) can mean &quot;after,&quot; they have distinct uses.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>\u4ee5\u540e is used for the future in general<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \t\u4ee5\u540e is used when talking about things that happen at some unspecified point in the future.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 y\u01d0 h&ograve;u b&uacute; xi\u01cen\u0261 zh&ugrave; z&agrave;i r&igrave; b\u011bn.<br \/>  \t\u4ed6 \u4ee5\u540e \u4e0d \u60f3 \u4f4f \u5728 \u65e5\u672c \u3002 <\/div>\n<div>He doesn&#39;t want to live in Japan later.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>\u4ee5\u540e is used for things occurring after a specific time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \t\u4ee5\u540e can be used to describe actions or events that occur after a specific time (and the time must be given).<br \/>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tNote that the time can be specific (like a date or time) or broad (like an event, action, or occurrence).<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>Li\u01cen\u0261 \u0261&egrave; x\u012bn\u0261 q\u012b y\u01d0 h&ograve;u \uff0c w\u01d2 y&agrave;o hu&iacute; m\u011bi \u0261u&oacute;\u3002<br \/>  \t\u4e24 \u4e2a \u661f\u671f \u4ee5\u540e\uff0c\u6211 \u8981 \u56de \u7f8e\u56fd \u3002<\/div>\n<div>After two weeks, I&#39;m going to return to America.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>\u540e\u6765 is used for sequencing past events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \t\u540e\u6765 is used to sequence two events that have already occurred. It is the Chinese equivalent of the English word &quot;afterward&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Strucure <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>Q&ugrave; ni&aacute;n w\u01d2 men f\u0113n sh\u01d2u le \uff0c h&ograve;u l&aacute;i z&agrave;i y\u011b m&eacute;i ji&agrave;n \u0261u&ograve; t\u0101.<br \/>  \t\u53bb\u5e74 \u6211\u4eec \u5206\u624b \u4e86\uff0c\u540e\u6765 \u518d \u4e5f \u6ca1 \u89c1 \u8fc7 \u5979\u3002<\/div>\n<div>We broke up last year, after that, I never saw her again. <\/div>\n<p>  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3357190353\"><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>While both \u4ee5\u540e (y\u01d0h&ograve;u) and \u540e\u6765 (h&ograve;ul&aacute;i) can mean &quot;after,&quot; they have distinct uses.<\/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-15879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":990,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879","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=15879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}