Talk:Chinese verbs

Comment by a non-native speaker: Mei3 negates other verbs in some circumstances. Can an expert help here?

Introductory paragraph largely useless

It reads:

There are two different forms of verbs in the Chinese language. The static, indicating state, and the dynamic, indicating action. The sentence changes with the different forms of verbs.

Then, nothing more on static and dynamic verbs or how the sentence changes, nor is there a hyperlink to where this information might be found. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.148.99 (talk) 03:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Modal Verbs

I started studying Chinese (a long time ago) but eventually changed for history; but I remember verbs like "yào" or "dӗi" and others being used quite like English "can" / "must" / "may" / "should". Is there a category of verbs in Chinese that would more or less correspond to Germanic Modal verbs? Trigaranus (talk) 16:36, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Those verbs can function as modals; they can also function as other things, though. I'm not sure about formal categories; some good resources to look at would be A Grammar of Spoken Chinese by Chao Yuen Ren (1968) and Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar by Li & Thompson (1981). —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 08:37, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Need for this article?

This article seems to cover a few topics in Chinese grammar, not usually in much more detail than the Chinese grammar article does, and sometimes in less detail. Is there a need to keep this article separate, or can it be merged into Chinese grammar? W. P. Uzer (talk) 11:05, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

I merged it, there really wasn't anything on this page that isn't on the other one (apart from a couple of examples, which I've transferred). W. P. Uzer (talk) 13:02, 15 January 2015 (UTC)