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Ari 桑 -

Is there any difference between the grammar for 要 and 打算 when you mean will. And how exactly
do you distinguish between "want" and "will?"

How does one tell that 我明年要到中国去 means "next year I will go to china" and not "next
year I want to go to china?" Context?



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rootfool -



Quote:

How does one tell that 我明年要到中国去 means "next year I will go to china" and not "next
year I want to go to china?" Context?

It's hard to distinguish the two meanings from this simple sentence.You can get the exact meaning
from the context.
To me,if I want to say "i will",i will use "我明年会到中国去 or 明年我将去中国"
and for "i want",it's "我明年想要到中国去"

Hmm,it's just a personal opinion.










cdn_in_bj -

Check out this thread:

http://www. /showthread.php?t=18726

You can also use 想 to convey "want" or "desire to" where the use of 要 might be ambiguous.










optical -

This is something I would really like to understand forwards and backwards, inside and out.

How can I clarify, or tell the difference between a 要 that means I want to, and I need to?

For example, a friend of mine on QQ said to me just now:

今天我要工作啊
So to my beginner eyes, I initially read this as "I want to work today", but given the context of
my question (Will you go to such and such place today?) it is somewhat clear that this actually
means "I have to work today[so I cannot go]".

Is there any kind of marker in the grammar that says this means "Have to" or is it entirely based
on the context?

Lets look at this example dialog (full of errors I'm sure)
A: 下课以后你干什么？
B: 我要吃饭

Grammar errors aside, in this scenario is the person answering, "I want to eat" or "I have to
eat"? Whichever one is true, what are you looking at to come to this conclusion?










muyongshi -

There is not going to be a rule about this...you need to learn the Chinese 范围 for their uses
or you will be confused for a long time. But I will give you a little quick thing about some of
their major differences and hopefully that will help.

1) The meaning of 要 is more like our idea of "going to" rather than our want
2) The meaning of 想 is more like our idea of "want" rather than thinking about it.

I know that when we say in English "I am thinking of buying xxx" we are leaning towards actually
buying it where as we say "I want to buy xxx" we are simply expressing a desire and there is not
concrete plans.... In Chinese it's opposite. 我要买 is not I want to but that I am going to (of
course with room for changing your mind) and 我想买 expresses more of just the desire rather
than I am thinking of doing it (so in essence planning to).



Quote:

Lets look at this example dialog (full of errors I'm sure)
A: 下课以后你干什么？
B: 我要吃饭

(By the way it would probably be said 你要干什么)

The 要 in this examples expresses I am going to eat food and there is no have to in any any
example. In your first example there is a flavor of "I have to...." but it means I am going to be
working at that time so I can't come...

If something still is confusing I can try to explain it a bit clearer....












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