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My understanding of Mandarin is not strong, so these questions may sound terribly silly: Is “我还没去过北京” considered past tense? It’s something that hasn’t been do
by haneul 4y ago
My understanding of Mandarin is not strong, so these questions may sound terribly silly:
Is “我还没去过北京” considered past tense? It’s something that hasn’t been done, so I’m confused as to how that could be in the past.
For things like “我在走路”, is it not just needing a thing to receive the action, even if a filler? Or are there cases where you don’t need a filler?
Also, for “他要吃了吗”, is that not a statement from the past perspective of a (desired) completed action? Kind of like “我卖了这些车以后”?
- vore 4y agoI would characterize 我还没去过北京 as past perfect tense but in the negative: if "I have been to Beijing" is past perfect in the affirmative, then "I haven't been to Beijing" is past perfect in the negative. Maybe a more straightforward example I should've gone with is "我去过北京" for "I've been to Beijing". Regarding 我在走路, yes, 路 acts as a filler for prosody purposes. If the prosody is fine, then you don't need it, e.g. 他走的很快 (swapping 我 for 他 here because it sounds kind of weird to say such a sentence about yourself) takes no noun just like the fragment 他在走, but mustn't use the filler noun 路 (他走路的很快 is incorrect). "我卖了这些车以后" I think is more like "After I sold these cars", where "sold" is definitely past tense here. "他要吃了吗？" expresses "Is he going to eat?", where 吃 hasn't taken place in the past.