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Henry

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From :   Henry

Date : 2008-04-26 / 11:48PM

Hi benny, dont mind explain how to use ‘zhe’ ? i am confused on when to use ‘zhe’ and when to use ‘zai4’ to indicate doing something..

how to say ‘at the moment?’ for example: at the moment we have 4 people’

thank you

cheers

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-04-27 / 07:35AM

Hi Henry, the difference between “zhe and zai” is where we put them.

The structure is: zai + Verb/ Verb + zhe

Also “at the moment” is same as “now”, in Chinese we say “xiàn zài”

xiàn zài wǒ men yǒu 4 ge rén

Benny


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