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What is the difference between 得 and 地 when describing a verb?

得 is used to describe how you do the verb generally, whilst 地 is used to describe how the verb is being done at that moment.EG.I am good at swimming uses 得 since it is a general statement.He's swimming so fa...
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Answered by Zakary H. • Mandarin tutor
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When should the animate accusative case be used in Russian?

When declining an object to a verb which usually takes the accusative but the object is alive (eg. human/animal). If this object is feminine, the animate accusative is simply the accusative.
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Translate the following sentence using 的 as an attributive: This is the book my mum bought from London yesterday.

这是我母亲昨天从伦敦买来的那本书.
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Explain glacier mass balance

Glacier mass balance is a tricky concept to understand without understanding the accumulation and ablation first. Accumulation is when a glacier is gaining mass normally from snowfall which has been compress...
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Why do we use algebra?

Algebra is a very good way of generalising a particular scenario. For example, if you get a weekly allowance of £5 for leisure you can make an equation to calculate the amount of money you can save up in n w...
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Answered by Aaron R. • Maths tutor
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