Language: Mandarin Chinese (PTH)
Contributors: Guohua Zhang
Complex verb
Verb meaning: RAIN [rain]
Comment: No verbal counterpart. The Mandarin counterpart of RAIN is only a noun. It usually takes a verb xia ‘drop’ in the sentence.
Schema: V
Examples for basic coding frame:| (69) |
下雨了。 Xià yǔ le. xiayu rain le PRES It is raining. |
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