得 in complement of degree or manner

freddy1705
 August 27, 2010, 07:21 AM posted in I Have a Question

Hi everybody. This question belongs to the "I know how to use it, but grammarwise it does not make sense to me". Here goes: "Please speak a little slower" is rendered "qǐng shuō màn yīdiǎn" by native speakers, why is no 得 inserted between shuō and màn?

is it because the implied object 話 omitted?

cheers

 

阿賓

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go_manly
 August 27, 2010, 12:28 PM

得 is used to comment on an existing state of affairs, and can't be used as an imperative, as an imperative is a request to change the current state of affairs.

However, you could use the other de particle, 地:

你慢慢地说。(Nǐ mànmande shuō.)

But this is asking someone to speaking slowly, not 'slower'.

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freddy1705

Thanks, that makes sense. Here is another one: How would you translate 她做事很認真

and 他做事做得很認真 respectively?

cheers

阿賓

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suansuanru
 August 27, 2010, 04:34 PM

go_manly说得太好了！

so you see,I've made an comment on go_manly's answer,so I use得here.  :)