Chinese Word Order
Can the word order of the sentence be rearranged?
"那边打电话的是我丈夫。"
Can you say instead
“我的丈夫那边是打电话的。”?
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Answers · 9
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Nope!!! Never change the order. It's not like Russian ...
Like you can't change the word order of English
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Actually, you can change the order.
But in many cases you need to slightly change the words in order to make it a grammatically correct sentence.
In this case, "那边打电话的是我丈夫。"
you can also say: 我的丈夫是(在)那边打电话的那(一)位。
if you don't have to stick to “是”, you may also say 我的丈夫在那边打电话。
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Sure!! you can say that instead. But the meaning will be: The THING of my husband's is for making a phone call. Lmao!!
If that's what you were trying to say. :)
Happy learning!!
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Do you mean: 我的丈夫在那边打电话?
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Or:我的丈夫是在那边打电话的(那个人)?
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