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honker

Posted on: I want to buy this one
April 21, 2009, 06:36 AM

In the sentence 咖啡

uses second tone because 要 uses fourth tone. Is that correct? But 不 would normally be a fourth tone? I noticed this is one character that seems to flip-flop based on placement.

There is probably some hard grammar rule hidden in there somewhere.