The 是... 的 construction for emphasizing details

Estrutura

Exemplos

• 你们是什么时候到的？
  Nǐ men shì shén me shí hou dào de?
  When did you guys arrive?
• 我们是昨天到的。
  Wǒ men shì zuó tiān dào de.
  We arrived yesterday.
• 你是在哪儿出生的？
  Nǐ shì zài nǎ r chū shēng de?
  Where were you born?
• 你骑自行车来的吗？
  Nǐ qí zì xíng chē lái de ma?
  Did you come by bike?
• 谁告诉你的？
  Shuí gào sù nǐ de?
  Who told you?

Palavras que usam isto

• 了le(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
• 是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute); (used to form a nominal expression); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); also pr. [dì] or [di] in poetry and songs
• 不是bù shinot be; No!; to V2, not V1; if not A, then B; either A or B