大(dà) - big, large, great in Mandarin

Mandarin Adjectives as Stative Verbs: Why 'I Am Cold' Is 我冷, Not 我是冷

Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register

Approximation and Rounding in Mandarin: 左右, 大概, 差不多, 几 and 来 for About, Around and Roughly

Mandarin Causatives 使 (shǐ), 令 (lìng) and 让 (ràng): Making Someone Feel or Do Something

Mandarin 除了...以外: One Frame, Two Opposite Meanings

Mandarin Complements: 得 for Manner, Directional Endings, and How to Attach a Result to a Verb

Concession in Mandarin: 虽然...还是/但是, 不过, and 还是 (Although, Even So, Nonetheless)

Asking How + Adjective in Mandarin with 多: 多高, 多远, 多长, 多大

Figurative Directional Complements in Mandarin: 起来, 下去 and 出来 Beyond Up, Down and Out

The Mandarin Durative 着 (zhe): Marking a State That Continues (门开着, 拿着书, 笑着说)

Mandarin Existential and Presentative Sentences: 有, 出现, 发生 and Why New Things Go After the Verb

就 (jiù) vs 才 (cái) in Mandarin: Sooner Than Expected, Later Than Expected

Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System

The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened

The Mandarin 所 (suǒ) Family: 所有, 所谓, 所 + Verb, and the 为...所 Passive

The Three de in Mandarin: 的, 得, and 地 and How to Tell Them Apart

Topic-Comment Structure in Mandarin: Fronting 这本书我看过 and Why Word Order Bends

Mandarin Sentence Structure: Word Order, Topic-Comment and the 把 Construction

Mandarin 性 (xìng) and 化 (huà): Building Abstract Nouns and '-ise' Verbs

The Mandarin 以 (yǐ) Family: 以为, 以及, 以便, 以免, 以来 and 以...为...

又 (yòu) vs 再 (zài) vs 还 (hái) in Mandarin: The Three Ways to Say 'Again'

The Mandarin 于 (yú) Family: 对于, 关于, 由于, 至于, 属于, 位于, 终于

Mandarin 之 (zhī): 之一, 之间, 之后, 之中, 总之 and the Written Ancestor of 的