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Usage 1 - "to see face-to-face, to meet":
Sentence:
我和我的好朋友每周见一次面。
English:
I see my good friend once a week.
Top-Down Words:
每周 zhōu - every week
次 cì - measure word for times (ie how many times did you see that movie?)
Sentence:
我们见面了。
English:
We met up.
Top-Down Words:
*Sentence:
我的一个中国朋友,我们每一次见面,他都会给我说说中国的文化,很好玩儿。
English:
Every time I meet my Chinese friend, he talks about Chinese culture, it's good fun.
Top-Down Words:
次 cì - times
都 dōu - all, every
给 gěi - (relator/preposition) for, to
*Sentence:
我们明天下午要见一面,你也来吧!
English:
We are meeting tomorrow, why don't you come too?
Top-Down Words:
吧 ba - (particle expressing suggestion)
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Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Jason Pon
Two questions around 见一次面 please and thank you!
1) is 见面 like 说话 whereby you can place an infix to split it up? Is it because they are both 'verb noun' verbs? Similar to how we've seen 说的话 we see 一次.
2) When the infix is there, is the 面 still 5th tone? or does it go back to 3rd tone?
Here's a reply for you, Jason:
https://www.loom.com/share/026b3d122efc49408b3170d12ea2513c
MB Team
This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55GZJsesUao&t=2687s
Tina Clark
我们明天下午要见一面,你也来吧!
What does the 一 do here?
Thank you!
Mandarin Blueprint
我们明天下午要见三面 is also a grammatically correct sentence, so as you can see the 一 (or 三) are indicating the number of times you'll see each other. BTW, it's rare that someone would say 见三面, but it's an excellent example to illustrate the difference.
Tina Clark
So it's like the 次 gets dropped?
Thanks for answering all our questions so quickly.
Mandarin Blueprint
You don't have to drop it, if I say 见一次面 that's fine, but the 道理 to take from this sentence is that you *can* drop 次, not necessarily that you *should*.
Chris Lewis
每周 zhōu - every week. Did you guys mean to leave out měi in your example here?
Mandarin Blueprint
We didn't put the Pinyin because you already learned 每, so you already know the correct pronunciation. No need for a crutch when your leg is not broken!
Jason Pon
Two questions around 见一次面 please and thank you!
1) is 见面 like 说话 whereby you can place an infix to split it up? Is it because they are both 'verb noun' verbs? Similar to how we've seen 说的话 we see 一次.
2) When the infix is there, is the 面 still 5th tone? or does it go back to 3rd tone?
Mandarin Blueprint
Here's a reply for you, Jason:
https://www.loom.com/share/026b3d122efc49408b3170d12ea2513c
MB Team
This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55GZJsesUao&t=2687s