{"id":15854,"date":"2020-01-11T22:17:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-the-if-sandwich-pattern\/"},"modified":"2020-01-11T22:17:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:17:27","slug":"chinese-grammar-the-if-sandwich-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/chinese-grammar-the-if-sandwich-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: The &#8220;if&#8221; sandwich pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \t&quot;\u5982\u679c\u22ef\u22ef\u7684\u8bdd\uff0c\u22ef\u22ef&quot; (r&uacute;gu\u01d2&#8230; de hu&agrave;, &#8230;) is a pattern commonly used in Chinese to express &quot;if&quot;. An easy way to remember the pattern&#39;s format is that in the full form, the condition is &quot;sandwiched&quot; between \u5982\u679c and \u7684\u8bdd.<\/p>\n<p>  \tAn important thing to note is that \u5982\u679c can be switched out for the various other terms for &quot;if&quot;, including the common \u8981\u662f (y&agrave;oshi) and the formal \u5047\u5982 (ji\u01cer&uacute;), among others. Also, keep in mind that the \u7684\u8bdd at the end is optional, and even the leading &quot;if&quot; word is optional! Context makes a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>R&uacute;\u0261u\u01d2 n\u01d0 y\u01d2u k\u014dn\u0261 de hu&agrave; \uff0c w\u01d2men k y\u01d0 m&iacute;n\u0261ti\u0101n w\u01censh\u0251n\u0261 k&agrave;n di&agrave;ny\u01d0n\u0261.<br \/>  \t\u5982\u679c \u4f60 \u6709 \u7a7a \u7684\u8bdd\uff0c\u6211\u4eec \u53ef\u4ee5 \u660e\u5929 \u665a\u4e0a \u770b \u7535\u5f71\u3002<\/div>\n<div>If you have time, we can go see a movie tomorrow night.<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-436779550\"><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>&quot;\u5982\u679c\u22ef\u22ef\u7684\u8bdd\uff0c\u22ef\u22ef&quot; (r&uacute;gu\u01d2&#8230; de hu&agrave;, &#8230;) is a pattern commonly used in Chinese to express &quot;if&quot;. An easy way to remember the pattern&#39;s format is that in the full form, the condition is &quot;sandwiched&quot; between \u5982\u679c and \u7684\u8bdd.<\/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-15854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":172,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854","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=15854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}