第一百四十三天

[nnozomi]

语法
要 + noun for "want something". (Why are all the 要 meanings on one page when 了 is so spread out? First quarter of the page today, anyway)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Auxiliary_verb_%22yao%22_and_its_multiple_meanings

词汇
喝, to drink, a nice straightforward verb (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Guardian:
你不知道，他们要的是我 you don't understand, it's me they want
沈老师，外面太阳大，喝口水吧 Professor Shen, it's so sunny out, have some water
你什么时候开始喝... since when do you drink?
(Interestingly, Shen Wei uses 喝 with 粥, congee, which I would have thought of as 吃. I guess it's soup in his mind? 药, medicine, seems to go with both 吃 (for pills) and 喝 (for medicinal tea etc.).)

Me:
我真要巧克力，但是会坚持。
你喝不喝热茶？

Comments

[cathyw]

various and assorted verbs have been confusing me this week (in a lot of cases it's 了's fault, why does this one need 到 in addition to 了? why does this one need the 了 right after when this nearly identical sentence has it at the end? aaaargh.) so it's good to remember that a nice straightforward one exists.

I wonder if the 喝/吃 distinction relates to eating with a spoon vs chopsticks?

[nnozomi]

了 is such a headache, I'm just trying to take it as it comes and figure it's one of those things you eventually get a feel for through sheer quantity of exposure...

I wonder if the 喝/吃 distinction relates to eating with a spoon vs chopsticks?
ooh, that's an interesting idea! You may be right. Let's see what we can find out.