{"id":3012,"date":"2019-10-29T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/forming-mandarin-negatives\/"},"modified":"2019-10-29T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:03:04","slug":"forming-mandarin-negatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/forming-mandarin-negatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Forming Mandarin Negatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mandarin is a relatively simple language in that it does not have verb conjugations. The same form of verbs can be used for all tenses.<\/p>\n<p>  Negatives are also quite easily formed by simply placing the particle \u4e0d (b&ugrave;) in front of the verb. B&ugrave; can be used for all verbs except \u6709 (y\u01d2u &#8211; to have), which uses \u6c92 (m&eacute;i) for its negative form.<\/p>\n<p>  M&eacute;i is also used for negating Functive Verbs (action verbs) when talking a<em><\/em>bout completed actions. In this situation, m&eacute;i is a short form for m&eacute;i y\u01d2u and either form can be used.<\/p>\n<p>  Examples of Mandarin Negatives<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; W\u01d2 b&uacute; y&agrave;o.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t want (it).<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u4e0d\u8981\uff61<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; T\u0101 h&aacute;i m&eacute;i l&aacute;i.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He hasn&rsquo;t come yet.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4ed6\u9084\u6c92\u4f86\uff61<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; W\u01d2 m&iacute;ngti\u0101n b&ugrave; q&ugrave; xu&eacute;xi&agrave;o.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I won&rsquo;t be going to school tomorrow.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u660e\u5929\u4e0d\u53bb\u5b78\u6821\uff61 <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1580329698\"><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>Mandarin is a relatively simple language in that it does not have verb conjugations. The same form of verbs can<\/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":[151],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-mandarin"],"views":147,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","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=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}