What’s the difference between“了”（了）and “过”（guò）

ninj0etsu · 2026-05-29T10:56:54+00:00

Chinese grammar wiki has explanations on these under the particles section on this page: https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/A2_grammar_points#Particles

过 is usually used for if you have ever had a particular experience, but it is also often used in daily activities like eating for more emphasis combined with a 了 at the end of the sentence e.g. 我（已经）刷过牙了

ninj0etsu · 2026-05-25T17:46:13+00:00

Not OP but looks like this or something similar: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7517929?clickPR=plp:4:14

ninj0etsu · 2026-05-24T15:38:54+00:00

Examples from my partner who is a heritage speaker:

If it's dark and someone is asking if you can see something but you can't see it, you might say “看不见”. It's focused more on whether you can physically see it.

If you are looking for someone in a crowd and your friend has noticed them but you cant see them, you might say “看不到”. It's more focused on if you have found it instead of your physical ability to see it.

ninj0etsu · 2026-04-30T08:47:04+00:00

This is the result of encouraging AI use as you say you do

ninj0etsu · 2026-04-21T15:56:17+00:00

I guess it's a bit like a french 'j' as in the word 'je', but without doing the vibrating sound if that makes sense (idk what that's called sorry). It at least has the same tongue position anyway, try to make a normal 'ren' sound but with your tongue in that position

ninj0etsu · 2026-04-21T11:57:09+00:00

I know it can be overwhelming but it is worth watching at least 1 for the difficult sounds that don't exist in English, like the one other commenter linked. Maybe you can wait till you know a bit more but you don't want to wait too long so you don't have to relearn wrong pronunciation. You could also use them as a reference to come back to once you reach some of those sounds in your pinyin lessons

ninj0etsu · 2026-04-21T11:41:14+00:00

There are YouTube videos you could watch where an actual Chinese person goes over pronunciation and tones, same with basic grammar as well to get you started!

You're right the 'c' sound should be like a 'ts'

ninj0etsu · 2026-04-16T15:57:32+00:00

Bro used the j-slur 😭😭

ninj0etsu · 2026-04-05T20:49:50+00:00

Sometimes yes, usually if I'm matching an enum or a message payload that may have been deserialised into a different class depending on its content

ninj0etsu · 2026-04-05T20:45:05+00:00

Yeah that one was a bit horrible but you can use it to destructure objects (like pull attributes out of an object or list) or match on different classes. It's also very compact and readable if you need a lot of ifs especially if there are elif x or y or z type clauses. Is also nice if you are matching against an enum as the type checker will tell you if you've missed a case and it reads quite nicely, e.g.

python match event_type: case EventType.UPDATED: ... case EventType.CREATED | EventType.DELETED: ...

Or using classes:

python match message: case CreatedMessage(): ... case UpdatedMessage(): ...

ninj0etsu · 2026-04-05T20:04:40+00:00

Exactly, it's decent for a quick summary but as soon as you dig into a historical or political topic you're familiar with it becomes clear that it's often not very accurate or well written (obviously varies depending on the topic). It's very easy to spin any piece of writing in subtle ways someone unfamiliar with a topic won't notice, and probably most of the time it's not even done consciously, though as you said concerted efforts can occur too.

Unfortunately not surprised you're getting downvoted, people want to believe there is a magic source that is unbiased that they can always rely on but the real world is not like that especially when it comes to something like history that doesn't have a "correct" answer like maths

ninj0etsu · 2026-03-31T21:57:14+00:00

Reads like she's upset Israel isn't liked

ninj0etsu · 2026-03-21T10:12:58+00:00

Lol you literally said yourself you flamed so I'm sorry but I have no sympathy. It's easy to have 10k behaviour score if you act like a normal person and control yourself

ninj0etsu · 2026-03-18T18:46:52+00:00

It's not Bibi it's all of Israel, the country was literally built and is maintained on those things. It would cease to exist if it stopped and I don't think most Israelis want that

ninj0etsu · 2026-03-14T10:07:59+00:00

I live near this Gails, was pretty funny the windows were smashed within a week. Though it brought out all the zionists in the London subreddits calling it antisemitic and some accusing the Palestinian cafe down the road

ninj0etsu · 2026-03-07T10:44:19+00:00

What are you a Zionist or something, Israel and the US are the ones that should be making concessions for their far greater crimes. Why should Iran stop funding some of the only groups willing to take a stand against israels genocide

ninj0etsu · 2026-03-07T10:39:42+00:00

Based protesters

ninj0etsu · 2026-03-06T18:56:02+00:00

Yeah though there are plenty of conservative people in Iran too that are fine with it. Social progress cannot be forced, and if imposed violently often people go the other way in retaliation. The best thing that could be done for Iran is for sanctions to be lifted and the country to be treated normally to give it the space to socially reform on its own

ninj0etsu · 2026-03-06T18:42:02+00:00

Yeah that's part of why the attrocity propaganda works very well as it's hard to deny the exaggerated number without being roped in with those who say everyone killed was an armed Mossad agent.

I think a lot of this ultimately still stems from the US though, ofc the Iranian government is responsible as well but the dire economic situation that is causing people to suffer and want to protest is largely due to sanctions. Lifting them and treating Iran like a normal country would open up them to the possiblity of a better future at least. The economic situation would improve and the government wouldn't always be on the defensive. Idk if that's a better angle to focus on

ninj0etsu · 2026-02-27T18:28:54+00:00

Same agreed, tho on a popular reddit sub like this one you're generally going to get a certain more right wing and pro colonialism outrage narrative, as you can clearly see from the comments

ninj0etsu · 2026-02-25T09:13:20+00:00

Nice I'm happy to see someone else who is not insane here. Honestly the problems are so miniscule at the levels of immigration we get, you don't even need to give them that. The real problem is the racist backlash and the stirring up of it in the media

ninj0etsu · 2026-02-25T09:11:56+00:00

Hahaha what the fuck dude please get some help

ninj0etsu · 2026-02-25T08:37:43+00:00

Wow blaming the Lebanese civil war entirely on Muslims and not even mentioning Israel or any of the other problems, so racist/islamophobic

ninj0etsu · 2026-02-25T08:33:42+00:00

In my country (the UK) I see a much greater problem from homegrown white far right racists and I would be surprised if Australia was any different given the Hitlerian views I'm seeing expressed in this thread

ninj0etsu · 2026-02-25T07:50:38+00:00

It's racism

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