天(tiān) - day, sky, heaven in Mandarin

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

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

不但...而且 in Mandarin: Not Only A But Also B (不仅, 还, 也, 并且)

Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page

Chinese Measure Words (Mandarin Classifiers): The Core Dozen, Which One Your Noun Takes, and the Safe Default

Mandarin Comparatives: 比, 比较, 最, 跟…一样 and How to Say 'More', 'Most', 'Same As'

Mandarin Conditionals: 如果, 要是, 的话 and the 就 That Finishes the Sentence

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

The Mandarin Copula 是 (shì): To Be, and When to Leave It Out

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

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

How to Say Even Though and Even If in Mandarin: 虽然, 即使, 就算 and 尽管

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

Formal Mandarin Connectives: 然而, 因此, 于是 and 尽管 (The Written Register)

Mandarin Four-Character Idioms (四字格): The Shape, Not the List

Mandarin Question Words: 什么 (shénme), 谁 (shéi), 哪 (nǎ) and Friends Stay Where the Answer Goes

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

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

The Mandarin 连...都/也 Construction: How to Say 'Even', and Why the Word Has to Move

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

Mandarin Negation: 不 (bù) vs 没 (méi), and Why 不有 Does Not Exist

Mandarin Numbers, Time, Dates, and Currency: From 1 to 1,000,000, the 二/两 Split, and Time-Before-Verb

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

Mandarin Possession with 有 (yǒu): To Have

Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)

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

Mandarin Relative Clauses with 的 (de): How the Modifier Goes Before the Noun

Mandarin Sentence-Final Particles: 吧, 呢, 啊, 嘛, 吗 and the Final 了

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

Mandarin Verb Reduplication: 看看, 看一看, 休息休息 and the 一下 Alternative

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

无论 and 不管 in Mandarin: The No Matter What Frame (无论/不管 ... 都/也)

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

The Mandarin 者 (zhě) Suffix: 作者, 读者, 前者, and Naming the One Who Does It

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