"(linguistics) tense" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
时式時式	shí shì	fashionable style / (linguistics) tense	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
曾经曾經	céng jīng	once / already / former / previously / ever / (past tense marker used before verb or clause)	syn
紧张緊張	jǐn zhāng	nervous / keyed up / intense / tense / strained / in short supply / scarce / CL:陣\|阵[zhen4]	syn
体體	tǐ	body / form / style / system / substance / to experience / aspect (linguistics)	syn
强势強勢	qiáng shì	strong / powerful / (linguistics) emphatic / intensive
让步讓步	ràng bù	to concede / to give in / to yield / a concession / (linguistics) concessive	syn
应用應用	yìng yòng	to put to use / to apply / practical / applied (science, linguistics etc) / application / practical use / (computing) app	syn
名词名詞	míng cí	(linguistics) noun / term (name for a concept)
同音	tóng yīn	(music) unison / (linguistics) homophonous / homonymic
韵律韻律	yùn lǜ	cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody	syn
母语母語	mǔ yǔ	native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
语言学語言學	yǔ yán xué	linguistics
复数複數	fù shù	(linguistics) plural / (math.) complex number
映射	yìng shè	to shine on / (math., linguistics etc) mapping	syn
过去时過去時	guò qù shí	past tense (grammar)
时态時態	shí tài	(verb) tense
音译音譯	yīn yì	transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols	syn
后缀後綴	hòu zhuì	suffix (linguistics)
吃紧吃緊	chī jǐn	in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important	syn
词根詞根	cí gēn	(linguistics) root
映衬映襯	yìng chèn	to set off by contrast / antithesis / analogy parallelism (linguistics)	syn
呼应呼應	hū yìng	to conform (with) / to echo / to correlate well / (linguistics) agreement	syn
前缀前綴	qián zhuì	prefix (linguistics)
形态学形態學	xíng tài xué	morphology (in biology or linguistics)
日化	rì huà	household chemicals (cleaning products etc) and toiletries (abbr. for 日用化學製品\|日用化学制品[ri4 yong4 hua4 xue2 zhi4 pin3]) / (linguistics) to rhotacize / rhotic
倒装倒裝	dào zhuāng	(linguistics) to invert (word order)
转义轉義	zhuǎn yì	(linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape
口音	kǒu yīn	(linguistics) oral speech sounds	syn
紧绷緊繃	jǐn bēng	to stretch taut / (of muscles etc) taut / strained / tense
收音	shōu yīn	to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)
字根	zì gēn	component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root / etymon
情态情態	qíng tài	spirit / mood / (linguistics) modal	syn
过去式過去式	guò qu shì	past tense
虚词虛詞	xū cí	(linguistics) function word
词法詞法	cí fǎ	morphology (linguistics) / word formation and inflection
实词實詞	shí cí	(linguistics) content word
多义多義	duō yì	polysemy / polysemous / ambiguity (linguistics)
词类詞類	cí lèi	(linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category
模态模態	mó tài	modal (computing, linguistics)
曾	céng	once / already / ever (in the past) / former / previously / (past tense marker used before verb or clause)	syn
紧緊	jǐn	tight / strict / close at hand / near / urgent / tense / hard up / short of money / to tighten	syn
缓緩	huǎn	slow / unhurried / sluggish / gradual / not tense / relaxed / to postpone / to defer / to stall / to stave off / to revive / to recuperate	syn
升调昇調	shēng diào	to promote to a higher post / (linguistics) rising intonation / (Chinese linguistics) rising tone
喉音	hóu yīn	guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
词缀詞綴	cí zhuì	prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics)
词汇学詞彙學	cí huì xué	lexicology (linguistics)
语料語料	yǔ liào	(linguistics) language material / language data
降调降調	jiàng diào	falling intonation (linguistics) / to lower the key of a tune / to demote
拟音擬音	nǐ yīn	to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language
词形詞形	cí xíng	form of words (e.g. inflection, conjugation) / morphology (linguistics)
脸红筋暴臉紅筋暴	liǎn hóng jīn bào	red and tense with anger (idiom)
脸红筋涨臉紅筋漲	liǎn hóng jīn zhǎng	red and tense with anger (idiom)
颚龈音顎齦音	è yín yīn	prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
发了言發了言	fā le yán	("past tense" of :发言) spoke publicly / made a speech
投了票	tóu le piào	past tense of to vote
任凭风浪起，稳坐钓鱼台任憑風浪起，穩坐釣魚臺	rèn píng fēng làng qǐ , wěn zuò diào yú tái	lit. to sit tight on the fishing terrace despite the storm (idiom) / fig. to stay calm in a tense situation
完成时完成時	wán chéng shí	perfect tense (grammar)
未来式未來式	wèi lái shì	future tense
火药味甚浓火藥味甚濃	huǒ yào wèi shèn nóng	strong smell of gunpowder / fig. tense situation / standoff
现在式現在式	xiàn zài shì	present tense
稳坐钓鱼台穩坐釣魚臺	wěn zuò diào yú tái	lit. to sit tight on the fishing terrace despite the storm (idiom) / fig. to stay calm in a tense situation
紧张状态緊張狀態	jǐn zhāng zhuàng tài	tense situation / standoff
风声紧風聲緊	fēng shēng jǐn	(fig.) the situation is tense
闹僵鬧僵	nào jiāng	(of a relationship or situation) to become strained and tense
配价配價	pèi jià	(linguistics) valence / valency
施事	shī shì	(linguistics) agent / doer
首音	shǒu yīn	(linguistics) onset
文献学文獻學	wén xiàn xué	Philology / Historical Linguistics
祖语祖語	zǔ yǔ	proto-language / parent language (linguistics)
中古汉语中古漢語	zhōng gǔ hàn yǔ	Middle Chinese (linguistics)
倒装句倒裝句	dào zhuāng jù	(linguistics) inverted sentence
冗言	rǒng yán	pleonasm (linguistics)
冗赘词冗贅詞	rǒng zhuì cí	expletive (linguistics)
受词受詞	shòu cí	object (linguistics)
塞音	sè yīn	(linguistics) plosive / stop
新式拚法	xīn shì pīn fǎ	new spelling (linguistics)
构词学構詞學	gòu cí xué	morphology (linguistics)
粘着性粘著性	zhān zhuó xìng	agglutinative (in linguistics, a characteristic of Altaic languages)
词干詞幹	cí gàn	word stem (in linguistics)
语言匮乏語言匱乏	yǔ yán kuì fá	language deficit (linguistics)
译词譯詞	yì cí	(linguistics) an equivalent / a translation of a term into the target language
软龈音軟齦音	ruǎn yín yīn	velar sound (linguistics)
连系词連繫詞	lián xì cí	copula (linguistics)
选听選聽	xuǎn tīng	selective listening (linguistics)
零声母零聲母	líng shēng mǔ	(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
音读音讀	yīn dú	reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀\|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
齿龈音齒齦音	chǐ yín yīn	alveolar, apical, or supradental sound (linguistics)
龈擦音齦擦音	yín cā yīn	alveolar fricative (linguistics)
龈辅音齦輔音	yín fǔ yīn	palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
龈音齦音	yín yīn	alveolar sound (linguistics)
龈颚音齦顎音	yín è yīn	prepalatal sound (linguistics)
龈腭音齦齶音	yín è yīn	alveo-palatal sound (linguistics)
训读訓讀	xùn dú	a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩\|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀\|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
软腭音軟齶音	ruǎn è yīn	(linguistics) velar consonant
上古汉语上古漢語	shàng gǔ hàn yǔ	Old Chinese (linguistics)
王力	wáng lì	Wang Li (1900-1986), one of the pioneers of modern Chinese linguistics
集合名词集合名詞	jí hé míng cí	collective noun (linguistics)
原语原語	yuán yǔ	source language (linguistics)
国际应用语言学协会		International Association of Applied Linguistics
尾缀尾綴	wěi zhuì	(lit.) to follow sb / (linguistics) suffix / ending / (computing) file name extension

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