已经八点了。
yǐjīng bā diǎn le 。
It's already eight o'clock.
At forty-five minutes past the hour Mark was visibly restless, and by a quarter past he was positively
pacing. It didn't matter to him that this was a sensitive legal affair involving three major parties across two
continents. Considering that Hawkins-Billet was extending its services pro bono - hardly an inexpensive
favor - surely it wasn't too much to expect punctuality from the client?
Learning mandarin? Our lesson today teaches how to make confident statements about the future using
what Brendan refers to as a "prediction sandwich" and the rest of us call the 会... 的 construction. But
don't let this grammatical lingo scare you off -- by the end of this lesson you'll have learned a tremendously
easy way to make predictions about what will happen. So join us for today's show and if you have any
questions, feel free to let us know in our discussion section below.
yǐjīng bā diǎn le 。
It's already eight o'clock.
tā huì lái de 。
She'll come.
tā wàng le 。
She's forgotten.
tā shuō tā huì lái de , wǒ zhīdao tā huì lái de 。
She said she'll come. I know she'll come.
yǐjīng
already
adverbbā diǎn
8 o'clock
nountā
she pronoun 会...的 huì...de will other 来 lái to come
verbwàng
to forget
verbshuō
to say
verbzhīdao
to know
verbqù
to go
verbzuò
to do
verb