CLO_076: Which is more convenient?
Dialogue: Numbers
A: Ni3 na3ge shi2jian1 hui4 bi3jiao4 fang1bian4?
B: Xing1qie41r bi3jiao4 hao3.
A: Na4, wo3men xing1qie41r jian4.
B: Hao3, dao4 shi2hou4 jian4.
Dialogue: Tones
A: Nǐ nǎge shíjiān huì bǐjiào fāngbiàn?
B: Xīngqīèr bǐjiào hǎo.
A: Nà, wǒmen xīngqīèr jiàn.
B: Hǎo, dào shíhòu jiàn.
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March 12th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
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October 21st, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I’m a little confused on the last vocabulary item: Hǎo, wǒ zài dǎ diànhuà gěi nǐ . This is translated as “I’ll give you a call later.” Where does the later come from and why is this the future tense. My thoughts are that “zai” is again, so “I’ll call you again” and “I’ll call you later” are basically the same thing. Also, sometimes tense seems to be indicated by “yao4″ (”going to”) but other times simply by context. I am guessing here it is just by context, since “I call you again later” doesn’t make sense. Thanks. Hopefully, I’m catching on.
October 21st, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Hi Anthony,
Your analysis is perfect! This is the same zài from zàijiàn which literally means “again meet.” That extends to meaning “meet you later.” Similarly, wǒ zài dǎ diànhuà gěi nǐ goes from “I again call you” to “I’ll call you later.”
If you want to take a peek at other usages of “zài”, you can try this:
1. Find “zai” in the vocabulary section and switch to the equivalent character in Chinese and click on it (in this case it’s 再). (You need to use the Chinese character version since it is a homonym of 在, so just clicking on the pinyin “zai” would yield results for both characters.)
2. You will then get a word bank listing of all the lessons where 再 is used. Warning, this may help or confuse you further to see that it can also have a meaning of “more” in addition to “again” and “later”!
Does that help?