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[[Image:Zhongwen yufa.png|none|right|60px|Zhōngwén yǔfǎ (Chinese grammar)]]
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(contracted; show full)290; [ &#36825;&#37096;&#30005;&#24433;&#25105;&#30475;&#19981;&#25026;&#12290;]<br>literal: This movie I look-no-understand.<br>I can't understand this movie (even though I watched it.)<br>(double-verb as well, where the second verb, "understand", suffixes the first and clarifies the possibility and success of the relevant action.)

==== Complement of Direction ====

The direction of an action that moves must typically be specified.  At 
the its simplest, the two directional complements &#21435; (qù, to go) and &#20358; [ &#26469;] (lái, to come) may be affixed to the end of a verb to indicated that it moves somehow away or towards the speaker, respectively.  These may be compounded with other verbs that further specify the direction, such as &#19978;&#21435; (shàng qù, to ascend), &#36942;&#20358; [ &#36807;&#26469;] (gùo lái, to come over), which may then be themselves affixed to a verb (such as &#36208(contracted; show full)
*Yip Po-Ching [Ye Buqing &#33865;&#27493;&#38738;], Don Rimmington: '''Chinese''', A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars; Routledge, 2004), ISBN 0415150329.

==See also:==
* [[Chinese language]]
[[Category:Chinese language]]
[[Category:Grammars of specific languages]]
[[sv:Kinesisk grammatik]]