Negative adjectives with "-si le"

Nível: HSK 4 | Categoria: Gramática

Explicação da Regra:

In English, you might use the expression "you scared me to death!" In Chinese, 死了 (sǐ le) is used similarly to intensify an adjective with an unpleasant connotation. The "Subject" part below is actually optional, you can still make your over-the-top exclamations without it. This structure is technically a kind of degree complement . None of these sentences actually refers to someone dying. Instead the word 死了 (sǐ le) and the structure is simply used to intensify an adjective. Notice how these are awkward to translate into English; the translations above took a number of different angles to create the same impact as -死了 (sǐ le) does in Chinese. You might say that -死了 (sǐ le) is much more versatile in Chinese than the English expression "to death."

Exemplos com Falantes Nativos:

• 我饿死了。 (wǒ è sǐle 。): "I'm starving."
• 今天累死了。 (jīntiān lèi sǐle 。): "I'm exhausted today."
• 热死了！ (rè sǐle！): "it's too hot!"
• 这几天忙死了。 (zhè jī tiān máng sǐle 。): "These days I am busy dying."
• 这件衣服丑死了。 (zhè jiàn yīfú chǒu sǐle 。): "This dress is ugly."

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