Mandarin Chinese Language Grammar

3.

Nouns and Noun Phrases

3.1.

Noun Categories

3.1.1.

3.1.2.

3.1.3.

3.1.4.

Collective Nouns

3.2.

Number Expression

3.2.1.

Singular Context

3.2.2.

Plural Marker 们 (men)

3.2.3.

Contextual Number Indication

3.3.

3.3.1.

3.3.2.

3.3.3.

Temporal Expressions

3.4.

3.4.1.

3.4.2.

Direction Terms

3.4.3.

Compound Place Names

3.5.

Personal Pronouns

3.5.1.

First Person Forms

3.5.2.

Second Person Forms

3.5.3.

Third Person Forms

3.5.4.

Plural Formations

3.6.

Demonstrative Pronouns

3.6.1.

Proximal 这 (zhè)

3.6.2.

Distal 那 (nà)

3.6.3.

3.7.

3.7.1.

General Classifier 个 (ge)

3.7.2.

Specific Classifiers

3.7.2.1.

3.7.2.2.

3.7.2.3.

3.7.2.4.

3.7.2.5.

3.7.2.6.

3.7.3.

Verbal Classifiers

3.7.3.1.

3.7.3.2.

3.7.3.3.

3.7.4.

Number-Classifier-Noun Structure

3.8.

Attributive Constructions

3.8.1.

Possessive 的 (de)

3.8.2.

Adjectival Attribution

3.8.3.

Relative Clauses

3.8.4.

Omission Patterns

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