{"id":15852,"date":"2020-01-11T20:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T20:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-sequencing-with-xian-xian-and-zai-zai\/"},"modified":"2020-01-11T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T20:28:56","slug":"chinese-grammar-sequencing-with-xian-xian-and-zai-zai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/chinese-grammar-sequencing-with-xian-xian-and-zai-zai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Sequencing with \u5148xian and \u518dzai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tThe word \u518d (z&agrave;i) actually has a lot of uses, beyond just &quot;again.&quot; &quot;\u5148&#8230;, \u518d&#8230;&quot; (xi\u0101n&#8230;, z&agrave;i&#8230;) is a pattern used for sequencing events, much like &quot;First&#8230;, then&#8230;&quot; in English. This pattern can also include &quot;\u7136\u540e&quot; (r&aacute;nh&ograve;u) meaning &quot;and after that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>General Usage of \u5148&hellip;&hellip;\u518d&hellip;&hellip;<\/strong><br \/>  \tIn the pattern below, \u518d has a meaning of &quot;then&quot; or &quot;and then.&quot;<br \/>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>W\u01d2 x\u01d0hu\u0251n xi\u0101n x&iacute;z\u01ceo\uff0c z&agrave;i shu&igrave; ji&agrave;o\u3002<br \/>  \t\u6211 \u559c\u6b22 \u5148 \u6d17\u6fa1\uff0c\u518d \u7761\u89c9\u3002<\/div>\n<div>I prefer to take a bath before I go to bed.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Using \u518d\u8bf4<\/strong><br \/>  \tYou may have learned that &quot;\u518d\u8bf4&quot; can mean &quot;in addition.&quot; Well, this usage of \u518d is a more literal combination of \u518d + \u8bf4, fitting into the \u5148&hellip;&hellip;\u518d&hellip;&hellip; pattern.<\/p>\n<p>  \tSo in this usage, \u518d\u8bf4 doesn&#39;t really mean &quot;in addition.&quot; Rather, it most literally means &quot;and then we&#39;ll talk.&quot; In other words, &quot;let&#39;s just do this now,&quot; and then after we see the result, we can talk some more about next steps. There&#39;s kind of a &quot;let&#39;s see how this goes first&quot; feeling to the expression.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong><br \/>  \tNote that in the pattern below, the sentence normally ends with \u518d\u8bf4.  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>N\u01d0 men xi\u0101n t\u01ceo l&ugrave;n y&iacute; xi&agrave; z&agrave;i shu\u014d.<br \/>  \t\u4f60\u4eec \u5148 \u8ba8\u8bba \u4e00\u4e0b \u518d\u8bf4 \u3002<\/div>\n<div>You guys discuss a little first, then we&#39;ll talk.<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3155268480\"><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 word \u518d (z&agrave;i) actually has a lot of uses, beyond just &quot;again.&quot; &quot;\u5148&#8230;, \u518d&#8230;&quot; (xi\u0101n&#8230;, z&agrave;i&#8230;) is a pattern used for sequencing events, much like &quot;First&#8230;, then&#8230;&quot; in English. This pattern can also include &quot;\u7136\u540e&quot; (r&aacute;nh&ograve;u) meaning &quot;and after that.&quot;<\/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-15852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":1064,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}