What do the nouns, verbs and adverbs in Chinese mean?

Noun: It is a type of speech and belongs to content words. Nouns represent the names of people, things, places or abstract concepts. Nouns are also divided into proper nouns and common nouns.

Verb: Generally a word used to express an action or state. In Chinese grammar, it expresses an action or a dynamic change of a person or thing. It usually appears after the noun subject or the main clause.

Adverbs: used to modify and limit verbs/adjectives, expressing time, frequency, scope, mood, degree, etc. Such as "very, quite, extremely, very, just, all, immediately, immediately, once, unexpectedly, again, continuously" etc.

1. Nouns

1. Those that express special names are called "proper nouns", such as "Yunnan, Shanghai, Li Bai, Bai Juyi".

2. The names of abstract things are called "abstract nouns", such as "category, thought, quality, moral character, friendship, method".

3. Directional nouns are called "positional nouns", such as "up", "down", "left", "right", "front", "back", "middle", "east", "west", "south" North, "front", "back", "east", "south", "middle", etc.

2. Verbs

1. Verbs are used to express general actions: such as "come, go, talk, walk, run, study, take off, review, know", etc.

2. Verbs used to express psychological activities: such as "think, value, pay attention to, respect, understand, believe, admire, miss", etc. Such verbs can often be preceded by "very, very" and so on. adverb.

3. Verbs expressing can and willing are called "can-will verbs". They are "can, want, should, willing, dare, get (dei), be able, should, should, willing, can" , may, must", these voluntary verbs are often used in front of general verbs, such as "go, can do, can consider, willing to learn, should explain, may develop".

3. Adverbs

Usually used before verbs and adjectives. Such as "Come here, leave immediately, very good, start again", etc.

Only "very" and "ji" can be used as complements after verbs and adjectives. Such as "I am very happy, I like it very much" etc.

Extended information

Modern Chinese words can be divided into 12 categories.

1. Content words: nouns, verbs, adjectives, numerals, quantifiers and pronouns.

Content words are one of the Chinese word categories. Words contain actual meanings. Content words can serve as sentence components alone, that is, words with lexical and grammatical meanings. Taking grammatical function as the main basis, it is believed that content words can serve as syntactic components alone and have lexical and grammatical meanings.

2. Function words: adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, particles, interjections, and onomatopoeia.

Function words generally refer to words that do not have complete meaning, but have grammatical meaning or function. It has the characteristics that it must be attached to a content word or sentence to express grammatical meaning, and cannot be a separate sentence, cannot be used as a separate grammatical component, and cannot overlap.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Modern Chinese Parts of Speech