电(diàn) - electricity; electric (in 电话, 电影, 电脑) in Mandarin

Mandarin Aspect Markers: 了, 在/正在, 过 - the System That Replaces Tense

Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page

Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs

Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It

Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses

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

Duration Complements in Mandarin (时量补语): How to Say How Long an Action Lasts

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

The Experiential 过 (guò) in Mandarin: Saying You Have Ever Done Something

Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System

The Two 了 in Mandarin: Completion 了 After the Verb vs Change-of-State 了 at the End

Mandarin Modal Verbs: 会, 想, 要, 应该, 可以, 能 and the Future-Intent Words 打算, 准备

Mandarin Possession with 的 (de): My, Your, His, and When Mandarin Drops the Particle

Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)

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

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