都, 些 and 呢
Hello, everyone! I have a question about these two sentences:
你上班以前都做些什么?
我上班以前都得去公园遛狗呢。
I didn't understand the use of 都 in both sentences and the use of 些. Also, why the use of 呢?Isn't it just for questions?
Thank you all! 谢谢大家!
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都 in the first sentence means no just one things. The speaker means I want to know what things the responder would do before going to work. 都 in the second sentence I can't explain it in grammar because I think it just a idiomatic usages. 些 also means more than one. You can understand as some in English. 些 is not a single word and people always say 一些。
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In these both sentences, the use of 都 are exactly the same.
comparing
A.我上班以前都得去公园遛狗呢。Usually, I have to walk the dog before going to work.
B.我上班以前得去公园遛狗呢。 I have to walk the dog before going to work.
sentence A means every time before going to work, I have to walk the dog.
sentence B means today or the time depends on the context of the conversation, just once.
些:some, any
this sentence can also be like 你上班以前都做什么?
here with or without 些 are no big difference
basically, both of these two sentences can be ended with or without 呢
你上班以前都做些什么呢?
我上班以前都得去公园遛狗呢。
most of the time, if you are not sure about how to use 呢, let's say, without having 呢 would be easy to handle
呢,吗,吧 etc. are used as grammatical mood, most of the time you can ignore them, 吗 are most commonly used in the end of some questions,like 你好吗?(how do you do?) 你高兴吗?(Are you happy?)
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都 means 'often' , 些 means some, so there may be a couple of things that you often do before you go to work
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