{"id":15875,"date":"2020-01-12T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-comparing-hou-lai-houlai-and-ran-hou-ranhou\/"},"modified":"2020-01-12T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T19:34:07","slug":"chinese-grammar-comparing-hou-lai-houlai-and-ran-hou-ranhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/chinese-grammar-comparing-hou-lai-houlai-and-ran-hou-ranhou\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Comparing \u540e\u6765houlai and \u7136\u540eranhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tOne of the most often confused words are \u540e\u6765 (h&ograve;ul&aacute;i) and \u7136\u540e (r&aacute;nh&ograve;u). They are similar on the surface, meaning something like &quot;and then,&quot; but their usage is fairly different.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>\u540e\u6765 is used to describe previous things <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \t\u540e\u6765 is a time noun, and it can only be used on its own. It describes a certain time period in the past to the present, and it allows the speaker to described what happened in that period.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>H&ograve;u l&aacute;i w\u01d2 q&ugrave; le l&igrave;n\u0261 w&agrave;i y\u012b ji\u0101 \u0261\u014dn\u0261 s\u012b \u0261\u014dn\u0261 zu&ograve;.<br \/>  \t\u540e\u6765 \u6211 \u53bb \u4e86 \u53e6\u5916 \u4e00 \u5bb6 \u516c\u53f8 \u5de5\u4f5c\u3002<\/div>\n<div>Afterwards, I went to work for another company. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>\u7136\u540e is used to describe things happens next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  \t\u7136\u540e is always used in a sequence. It is often used with \u5148 (meaning &quot;first&quot;).<br \/>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong><br \/>  \t  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>W\u01d2 men y&agrave;o q&ugrave; ch\u012b f&agrave;n \uff0c r&aacute;n h&ograve;u q&ugrave; ch\u0101o sh&igrave; \u3002<br \/>  \t\u6211\u4eec \u8981 \u53bb \u5403\u996d\uff0c\u7136\u540e \u53bb \u8d85\u5e02\u3002<\/div>\n<div>I&#39;m going to eat, then I&#39;ll go to the supermarket.<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3916958509\"><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>One of the most often confused words are \u540e\u6765 (h&ograve;ul&aacute;i) and \u7136\u540e (r&aacute;nh&ograve;u). They are similar on the surface, meaning something like &quot;and then,&quot; but their usage is fairly different.<\/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-15875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":882,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}