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I noticed a pattern in chinese where you take three words and put them together to create a verb or an adjective, for example:
了不起
想不起
找不到
听起来
看起来
Is this actually a grammatical rule?
I noticed a pattern in chinese where you take three words and put them together to create a verb or an adjective, for example:
了不起
想不起
找不到
听起来
看起来
Is this actually a grammatical rule?
了不起
想不起
找不到
听起来
看起来
Is this actually a grammatical rule?
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- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
@TalOplatka
The usage of the following English words is similar to those mentioned three words Chinese.
look like
taste like
feel like
sound like
smell like
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
了不起 is Fixed phrase
想不起、找不到 is 想起+不,找到+不,just the word in the middle,this is a set of fixed phrases
听起来、看起来、用起来 is 听+起来,看+起来,用+起来,This is another set of fixed phrases
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