using 尽力 in a sentence
adam_p_lax
December 30, 2012, 07:50 AM posted in I Have a QuestionHey all,
I was wondering if anyone knew if you could say 我要你学习学的尽力- "I want you to study as hard as you can" like a teacher talking to a student
adam_p_lax
thanks a lot. yea sometimes I mix up 的and得
verazhang100
December 31, 2012, 02:36 AMI agree with Tingyun. 学得尽力 sounds a little bit weird. 我要你们努力学习。sounds better.
adam_p_lax
then whats the most common usage of 尽力?
tingyun
December 30, 2012, 05:14 PMNo, doesn't sound natural coming after verb here, 尽力学习 is better, but using 努力instead of 尽力 would be more usual if the meaning is to encourage, 尽力 often has recognition of possibility (or liklihood) of failure implicit, so for instance someone asks you to do something and you say 我尽力吧 there is a sort of "don't get your hopes too high" message often present.
Side not, if you were to use your construction it would be 学习得尽力，得instead of 的, or if you were to use one of these grammatical particles in the construction i have above, then 尽力地学习. Though someone told me the 高考 was dispensing with point reductions for confusing 地的得, so perhaps there is some fading of these distinctions.