Chinese Grammar
 
  Nov 14  •  673 read 

Word order for expressing WHEN something happened

The biggest, most general time words come first in Chinese:
English: day, month, year
Chinese: year, month, day

English: Saturday, October 1, 1949 (Founding of the PRC)
Chinese: 1949, October 1, Saturday
Yījiǔsìjiǔnián, shíyuè yíhào, xīngqīliù
1949年10月1日,星期六。

English: 8:00 a.m. on July 4, 1820 (America’s First Independence day)
Chinese: 1820, July 4, at 8:00 a.m.
Yībāèrlíngnián qīyuè sìhào, zǎoshang bādiǎn zhōng.
1820年7月4日,早上八点钟。

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