Chinese Grammar

Chinese grammar is similar to English grammar in many ways. A simple Chinese sentence structure consists of a subject, a predicate, and an object. Chinese grammar is even simpler in some ways. For instance, the Chinese language does not have different forms based on gender or singular/plural. There are some differences between Chinese and English, but it is not hard to trace the clue and bridge the gap. Many people think that Chinese is the most difficult language in the world. There is of course, no such thing as the most difficult language in the world. Many factors need to be considered, and it all depends on what your mother tongue is and what other languages you have already mastered. Learning French is easier for Spanish or Italian native speakers than it is for Germans, whereas learning Dutch or Norwegian would be easier for a German than a Spaniard.

Is Chinese Grammar hard ?

So now the question is that that is Chinese grammar difficult to learn? Chinese is a language where it’s really helpful to read, read a lot, work on your characters from day one, and spend a lot of time reading. When you learn only the very basic facts about Chinese grammar, it’s easy to get the impression that there is really nothing to it: there is no morphology, only syntax, words don’t change their form, there are no work tenses and no conjugations. Chinese is a highly isolated language, so learning these basic facts about Chinese grammar is easy. People often jump to the erroneous conclusion that little morphology means that Chinese grammar has got to be easy. After all there are no conjugation rules to memorize and no noun-adjective agreement. However, later on, when you learn Chinese grammar, you find out that it is quite different from what you have used in other languages. This article will have a closer look at the Chinese grammar to understand where it’s hard and where it’s actually surprisingly easy!

Verb object pairs

These are hard for multiple reasons. The first reason is that it is necessary to always have an object always, a dummy one at least, because it’s often incorrect to leave a dangling verb. Another reason is that the identity of the verbs is confusing, and you might not be able to make sentences.

Same word, multiple functions

Words are sometimes only nouns, sometimes only verbs, sometimes either, sometimes a set of four objects. It is very difficult to figure out which is to use.

Sentence structure and word order

This is different and possibly stricter than in any other languages. One way to work this technique is by deconstructing the sentences and constructing them again while writing.

Lack of Prepositions

The lack of proper prepositions makes it rather difficult to express things sometimes. Indian languages depend on prepositions, so it requires a different kind of thinking to form a Chinese sentence.

In conclusion, we would like to say that the Chinese Kremlin will often seem a lot harder because of the initial expectation that many people have about how it is supposed to be easier how Chinese doesn’t even have grammar. But you can only get away with this misconception by actually learning it.