第三百五十九天

[nnozomi]

（不好意思迟到了，我睡了懒觉）

语法
不用 + verb, "don't need to X"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22don%27t_need_to%22_with_%22buyong%22

词汇
必须, must 必须 bìxū, must
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Introductory grammar day 145

Guardian:
像我们这些大学老师上班又不用打卡, university professors like us don't need to punch a timecard when we go to work
您不用和我抱歉, you don't need to apologize to me
可是这一步我必须自己去走, but this step I must take by myself [yup, this is Shen Wei talking, not Wu Xie]

Me:
我不用你给我带包，我能自己来。
不行，已经九点了，我必须准备好。

Comments

[sakana17]

Lost Tomb Reboot, episode 23:
那你不用再调查这件事情了

The Rebel, episode 38:
这件事，你必须得帮我

[nnozomi]

那你不用再调查这件事情了
I feel like saying this to Wu Xie is a good way to make him go off and 调查 the 事情 in question all over the place...

你必须得帮我
(This one confuses me because of the doubled 必须 + 得, oh dear.)

[sakana17]

This one confuses me because of the doubled 必须 + 得

I also wasn't sure what to make of the 得 in there. In context, it might be emphasis? Unless emphasis isn't one of the 9 million uses of 得...

[trobadora]

须 is one of those characters that do not want to stick. I know the word, but every time I see the character I go "???". *sigh*

[grayswandir]

I'm with you on this one. I did manage to remember what it was without looking it up, but only because the translation was right there and, like you, I do know the word -- by sound. I'm always forgetting the character, though. (I see Mandarin and Cantonese both pronounce 需 and 须 the same, which I know is part of the problem for me...)

(And this is going to just be me, but I also get confused about 必 because in Canto it's pronounced the same as 别 except with a different tone. High tone: "Must!" Low tone: "Don't!" Oy...)

[trobadora]

I see Mandarin and Cantonese both pronounce 需 and 须 the same, which I know is part of the problem for me...

That definitely doesn't help! But I wish I understood why my brain just sometimes is like, "this character you've seen dozens of times? nope, never seen it in my life!"

High tone: "Must!" Low tone: "Don't!" Oy...

Oh no, that is just evil! So glad Mandarin at least doesn't do that ...

[grayswandir]

Yeah, some of them just seem less intuitive or less memorable, somehow.

Oh no, that is just evil! So glad Mandarin at least doesn't do that ...

They're both kind of literary/formal in Canto anyway, so I don't have to worry about it too much... but that also means I don't get reminded of which is which all that often, either. XD

[sakana17]

this character you've seen dozens of times? nope, never seen it in my life!

I feel this so much. (Looking at you, 种, which has shown up in probably everything I've transcribed.) :(

[trobadora]

Oh, yeah, 种, I just had to look it up again, WTF brain.

[nnozomi]

(I see Mandarin and Cantonese both pronounce 需 and 须 the same, which I know is part of the problem for me...)
yeah, if writing by hand I'd be liable to mis-write 必须 as 必需, even though I have no trouble when reading.

in Canto it's pronounced the same as 别 except with a different tone. High tone: "Must!" Low tone: "Don't!" Oy...
Oy is right! (A 1-to-1 translation with 哎哟?) I'd have to fall back on context, which just might not be helpful...

[nnozomi]

It hardly ever turns up anywhere but 必须, that I know of, meaning less opportunity to keep it in mind...

[elenothar]

这还用说吗? seems a good one to know

[nnozomi]

And it's pretty literal in meaning, making it easier to remember!