{"id":971,"date":"2010-05-27T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T06:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=971"},"modified":"2010-05-27T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T06:40:47","slug":"simple-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/simple-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When speaking Mandarin, there are several ways to make comparisons between people, places, and things.<\/p>\n<p>Positive Comparisons<\/p>\n<p>1. He is taller than she.\u00a0 \u4ed6\u6bd4\u5979\u9ad8 -ta1bi3ta1gao1<br \/>\n2. He is taller than she.\u00a0 \u4ed6\u9ad8\u8fc7\u5979 -ta1gao1guo4ta1<\/p>\n<p>I have always found that the second structure is more comfortable, albeit more of a vernacular formation which I have encountered more in the south of China than in the north.<\/p>\n<p>Negative Comparisons<\/p>\n<p>Note that to make a negative comparison, it usually follows the form of &#8220;not as _[trait]__ as __[subject]__.&#8221; To make a negative comparison, you generally use \u6ca1\u6709 (mei2you3) or \u4e0d\u5982 (bu4ru2)\u00a0 rather than the \u6bd4 (bi3) construction here.<\/p>\n<p>\u4ed6\u6ca1\u6709\u5979\u806a\u660e ta1 mei2you3 ta1 cong1ming2 &#8211; He is not as smart as she.<br \/>\n\u4ed6\u4e0d\u5982\u5979\u806a\u660e ta1 bu4ru2 ta1 cong1ming2 &#8211; He is not as smart as she.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up next I&#8217;ll discuss more complicated comparisons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When speaking Mandarin, there are several ways to make comparisons between people, places, and things. Positive Comparisons 1. He is taller than she.\u00a0 \u4ed6\u6bd4\u5979\u9ad8 -ta1bi3ta1gao1 2. He is taller than she.\u00a0 \u4ed6\u9ad8\u8fc7\u5979 -ta1gao1guo4ta1 I have always found that the second structure is more comfortable, albeit more of a vernacular formation which I have encountered more&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/simple-comparisons\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}