第二年第二天

[nnozomi]

语法
没怎么 + V "didn't really ~" (bottom of page)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22not_often%22_with_%22bu_zenme%22
(I don't understand the explanation for this at all, but the sample sentences look as if they're straight-up using it for past tense?)

词汇
不但, not only (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
[不好意思啊，两个都没有呢。请给我例文！]

Me:
邻居的房子在建筑中，所以晚上我没怎么睡觉。
他不但很帅，而且很善良。

Comments

[donutsweeper]

Unfortunately I have to agree with you, I don't really understand what they're going with by their explanation of 没怎么 at all. :(

[nnozomi]

Agree! grayswandir worked it out pretty clearly below, but I don't know why the Wiki version uses such odd phrasing :(

[grayswandir]

the sample sentences look as if they're straight-up using it for past tense?

I think that's what they're trying to explain when they say that 有 is implied, since 没有 can indicate past tense. (ETA: I feel like this is the page they should have linked back to, on negating past actions with 没有.) So like:

我不复习 = "I don't review"
我不怎么复习 = "I don't review much"
我没有复习 = "I didn't review"
我没怎么复习 = "I didn't review much"

At least that's my understanding?

[trobadora]

That sounds right to me! It just seems a bit unnecessarily convoluted because the 有 is already optional and you can just say 我没复习, right? So "you use 没 here because there's an implied 有" is just confusing, when they could have said "you use 没 here, for negating past actions" ...

[grayswandir]

Ah, yeah, I see. I wonder if this may be a grammar technicality -- like in practical terms you can negate past actions with 没 and say that 有 is optional, but I feel like maybe technically it's not that 有 is optional, but rather that it can be left implied. Like, even if you don't actually say/write the 有, the grammatical structure is still functioning as 没(有). I don't really have any evidence of this beyond just the way the Wiki talks about 没有, though...

[trobadora]

Yeah, I think you're probably right about that! I hadn't thought about it like that before, but it would make sense.

[nnozomi]

Thanks--your explanations here and below make the best sense to me! I don't know why they had to put it in such a convoluted way.

[trobadora]

SHL doesn't have much of these, but it does have them!

SHL #1: 你那钉子最近没怎么发作了吧？

SHL #2: 不但你的武功尽失，还有五感都会慢慢衰退。

[nnozomi]

Saved by SHL--helpful grammar practice in the midst of Zhou Zishu's suffering :) Those are excellent examples.