{"id":15730,"date":"2020-01-06T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-expressing-earliness-with-jiu\/"},"modified":"2020-01-06T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:47:17","slug":"chinese-grammar-expressing-earliness-with-jiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/chinese-grammar-expressing-earliness-with-jiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: Expressing earliness with &#8220;jiu&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tJust as \u624d can express lateness, \u5c31 (ji&ugrave;) can be used to indicate that something happened earlier than expected.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure <\/strong><br \/>  \tThe pattern is as follows:<br \/>  \t  \tIn English this might be expressed with &quot;as early as&quot;, but usually it&#39;s not specifically marked.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples <\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>T\u0101 sh&iacute; b\u0101 su&igrave; ji&ugrave; d&agrave; xu&eacute; b&igrave; y&egrave; le.<br \/>  \t\u5979 \u5341\u516b \u5c81 \u5c31 \u5927\u5b66 \u6bd5\u4e1a \u4e86\u3002<\/div>\n<div>She graduated from college when she was only 18 years old.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tFrom the example sentences it is clear that \u4e86 naturally occurs with a verb used after \u5c31. This is because verbs following \u5c31 generally have the feeling of being completed.<br \/>  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-4089169735\"><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>Just as \u624d can express lateness, \u5c31 (ji&ugrave;) can be used to indicate that something happened earlier than expected.<\/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-15730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":184,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}