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https://www.digmandarin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/how-to-tell-tenses-in-chinese.jpg845449Unlike English and some other languages, Chinese doesn’t have a specialized pattern of verb changes to indicate tenses. So how do the Chinese tell the different tenses apart? Well, we usually use time words to express different tenses, and these words might be adverbs, nouns, or phrases. To be able to tell the different tenses…