The Interminable Wait

About

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.

Sentences

已经八点了。

yǐjīng bā diǎn le 。

It's already eight o'clock.

她会来的。

tā huì lái de 。

She'll come.

她忘了。

tā wàng le 。

She's forgotten.

她说她会来的,我知道她会来的。

tā shuō tā huì lái de , wǒ zhīdao tā huì lái de 。

She said she'll come. I know she'll come.

Vocabulary

已经

yǐjīng

already

adverb

八点

bā diǎn

8 o'clock

noun

她

tā

she pronoun 会...的 huì...de will other 来 lái to come

verb

忘

wàng

to forget

verb

说

shuō

to say

verb

知道

zhīdao

to know

verb

去

qù

to go

verb

做

zuò

to do

verb