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haha, there are two newer ones after this one.

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I also need on everyday ❤️

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I am planning to update monthly. It’s too much work for weekly updates :)

"His dog even likes to swim" (besides running and jumping) can be translated as 他的狗连游泳都喜欢。In this case, we basically see the word "even" used to emphasize the object "swiming", therefore adopt the "variation 2" of the pattern.

Yes, I like this. And I think it's consistent with the rule that 连 should be followed by a noun. Because, in the sentence "The dog likes to swim" or "The dog likes swimming", the elements "to swim" or "swimming" look like verbs, but they are actually nouns, being the object of the verb "likes".

You are right, 即使/即便 are particularly used to express ‘even if’ in Chinese. Even and even if are two completely different concepts in Chinese language.

I would like to reword my example as: "His dog even LIKES to swim" (he doesn't just tolerate it). The emphasis is now on the verb "likes" (and not on its object "to swim"). In this context, I believe that 连 cannot be used. But I think that 他的狗甚至喜欢游泳 should be okay to convey this idea.

@@mountaintag I think you got it~Cheers;)

No, they are not interchangeable. The traditional characters for 什么 are 什麼. As you can see, 什 is both used in simplified and in traditional characters. 甚至 is the same

@@ChineseGrammarSimplified I appreciate you answering my question! I just remember seeing this old 甚 used for 甚麼 (same meaning as 什麼). Thank you for clarifying!

1, 那个家中有婴儿出生的女人是我的姨妈/姑妈/阿姨/舅妈/姑姑。 2, 那位先生是中国人，没有他的帮助，我就找不到走失的小狗。or 那位在我寻找走丢的小狗时提供了至关重要的帮助的先生是中国人。

@@ChineseGrammarSimplified thank you so much, Andy!👍😄

@@kravitzendereck1805 You are welcome. My name is Luke though...LOL

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maybe the speaker is a picky eater, talking to another picky eater. "How can you not like Chinese food? I'm so picky and even I like Chinese food!"

No. 2 is very interesting. By saying 我连那家饭馆也没去过 the emphasis is on "that restaurant". So, the context could be: "I have never been to any restaurant in that town. I have never even been to that restaurant." However, if the context is: "I couldn't have left my wallet there. I have never even been to that restaurant" then the emphasis is on "not even been". I think this would be expressed very differently in Chinese. I think it could be: 连去那家饭馆我都没去过. As this video explained, 连 is used to emphasize a noun (such as "restaurant"). It cannot normally be used to emphasize a verb (such as "go"). However, if the verb is negated (such as "not even go"), then I think that 连 does indeed need to be used, as in the example I gave above. (The verb 去 appears two times, but is only negated the second time.)

@@mountaintag Hello~I think in your case, it would be ok to say (I couldn’t have left my wallet there,) (因为）我连那家饭馆都没去过, interesting thing is there is no other better way to emphasize verb grammatically, usually Chinese people would add emphasis vocally. When we say it, you would tell the difference. But it’s another story. On the other hand, since the key point in your case is to find the wallet, hence, logically speaking, in Chinese, ‘there’ would be the core in this sentence, therefore it’s ok to emphasize 饭馆 in the second part. Hope my explanation would be helpful to you~thank you for loving Luke’s video.

@@mountaintag In No. 2, actually we don’t have to consider too much context details, the better way to say it is to use pattern 2, 我甚至没去过那家饭馆, here, 没…过 means ‘haven’t ‘.