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Mandarin has a resultative affix (-成 -chéng) which sometimes indicates the successful completion of something. 翻译 fānyì 'to translate sth' > 翻译成 fānyì chéng 'to finish translating sth'. I guess you could say this rather represents completing something rather than successfully doing something, it's ...

This is the best example I can think of: I am going to go up into the attic and bring down the family pictures for you to look at. I guess there are some "serial verbs" here, but they aren't going to work as you're suggesting. To add a little zing, I'm going to add "climbing" up into the attic: I A...

How does Chinese handle adverbs and auxiliary verbs when there are serial verbs? Does each verb in the serialization take adverbs or auxiliaries, as in [adverbs - auxiliary verb - verb#1] [adverbs - auxiliary verb - verb#2], or are all of the adverbs & auxiliaries placed at the beginning so that yo...

finlay wrote:沖縄へ行って来ます!
I'm going to Okinawa!

いってらっしゃい!
Have a good one!

Śravyayī dṛc auvūya koyuvyī I had wanted to but decided against that. De, sí lé sa böíembensat zhö söi böskatsöit bé tel nzhí ngamath, de sí lé chau zdítnaikersaut zhganazh. well, 1 SG-NOM AUX.PAST INDEF little.duck- ACC and INDEF little.horse- ACC PTCL-PAST see ADV say, but 1 SG-NOM AUX.PAST DEF o...

araceli breathed a huge sigh of relief when nobody seemed to notice that she'd used the wrong case in the subject. ( emphasis mine ) The sun still rises in the east, no big whoop. And besides, in a written forum, no one can hear you scream... :evil: ———————————————————————— Oh, and 安静 ānjìng, it's ...

Géarthnuns /m n ŋ/ /p b t d k g/ /f v s z ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ θ ð x X h/ /j w/ /ɾ l/ /tʃ dʒ/ /a ɛ e ø ɪ i y u o ɔ/ /aɪ̯ aʊ̯ øɪ̯ oɪ̯/ 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar] 2. Phonemic voicin...