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听 in Context
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BONUS: Helper - Expressing That an Action Has Happened Before with 过
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BONUS: Helper - Turning Adjectives into Adverbs with 地
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BONUS: “How Does What" - Adverbs Expressing Tone of Voice
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Usage 1 - "after":
Sentence:
吃完饭后,我睡着了。
English:
After eating, I fell asleep.
Top-Down Words:
饭 fàn - meal
睡着 shuìzháo - to fall asleep (睡- to go to sleep, 着 to succeed in the previous verb)
*Sentence:
明天的party结束后他可能会来。
English:
He might come after tomorrow’s party is over.
Top-Down Words:
结束 jiéshù - to end; to finish; conclude
Sentence:
他决定长大后当一名司机。
English:
He decided that after growing up he would be a driver.
Top-Down Words:
当 dāng - to serve as
The Six Steps to Learning Words
Understanding Chinese Words - Morphemes
Chris Young
To modify the sentence "晚饭近6点吃就好了" from "Eating dinner around six is fine." to "Eating dinner AFTER six is fine.", is the correct placement of 后 like this: 晚饭6点吃后就好了. Translations vary when moving 后 to different places in the sentence.
From the examples above, the structure seems to be (thing being done)后, (something else) translates to "After (thing being done), (something else)".
Even if that's not right, the fact that these are no longer just strings of random characters, but chunks of meaning is exciting!
Lynn Ford
Is 一名 used in 他决定长大后当一名司机, when referring to what you do and not just a name or your name? Like if was any other occupation like a police officer, it would be 他决定长大后当一名警察? So 一名 will always be in before a title or occupation?
Mandarin Blueprint
That's not a bad synopsis! "Title or occupation" is probably broad enough. 一名学生 "one student" is common to say, and I suppose you could argue that "student" is a "title."
MB Team
This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOLiKJAbqd4&t=1481s