公园 in Context

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公园

Usage 1 - "public park": 

Sentence:

我家对面有一个公园。

English:

There’s a park across the street from my house.

Top-Down Words:

家 jiā - home, one’s home

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Sentence:

公园里太好玩了。

English:

It's really fun inside the park.

Top-Down Words:

里 lǐ - inside, within

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*Sentence:

我们一起去公园玩儿吧！

English:

Let's go hang out in the park together.

Top-Down Words:

吧 ba - (particle expressing suggestion)

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Sentence

那儿有公园。

English:

There is a park there.

Top-Down Words:

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Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Kate Gans

Could 公园里太好玩了 also mean “it was really fun in the park”? How would you differentiate for the listener whether you were saying “It’s really fun” vs, “it was really fun” in the park?

Mandarin Blueprint

Question 1: No, the sentence is just a general statement about what it's like inside the park.

Question 2: If you want to refer to a specific instance of being in the park, there are loads of ways you could say it, but you'd want to use the 是。。。的 construction to emphasize a past detail (Phase 4 Lesson: D:\Courses\Mandarin Blueprint\Course/phase-4-graded-reading-levels-21-30/categories/3635853/posts/12141054.html). For example: 我们在公园里的时间是很好玩儿的。

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Kate Gans

For this sentence: 公园里太好玩了

I am still having trouble understanding why 了 is needed at the end. I re-watched the YouTube video explaining 了and I don’t see where a change has occurred (which would then require 了 at the end).

Mandarin Blueprint

Oh, that's easy, 太 + Adjective + 了 is a set phrase, they just always go together.