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- <p><span style="color: rgb(139, 0, 0); font-family: NotoSansCJKsc; font-size: 22px;">宁可</span> (<span class="pinyin">nìngkě</span>) is used where the speaker wants to compare two unfavorable options, and choose a "<b>unfavorable option</b>" over a "<b>most unfavorable option.</b>"</p>
- <h2 id="using-宁可-with-也不">Using <span class="hanzist">宁可</span> with <span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 80); font-family: NotoSansCJKsc; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">也不</span></h2>
- <h3 id="structure">Structure</h3>
- <p>This construction puts <span class="hanzi">宁可</span> at the beginning of the sentence followed by <span class="hanzi">也不</span>. <span class="hanzi">宁可</span> is followed by unfavorable option and 也不 is followed by most unfavorable option.</p>
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- <div class="deux"><span class="hanzist">宁可……，也不……</span><br/></div>
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- <p>Again, the speaker is choosing between two options, but this time places the preferable option first.</p>
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- <li><span class="hanzi">我 宁可 没有 男朋友，也不 要 随便 找 一 个 男朋友。</span> <span class="trans">I'd rather have no boyfriend than find a random one.</span></li>
- <li><span class="hanzi">他 宁可 输， 也不 想 放弃。</span> <span class="trans">He'd rather lose than give up.</span></li>
- <li><span class="hanzi">我 宁可 在 公司 加班，也不 想 把 工作 带 回家。</span> <span class="trans">I'd rather work late in the office than take my work home.</span></li>
- <li><span class="hanzi">他 宁可 每天 吃 方便面，也不 找 父母 要 钱。</span> <span class="trans">He'd rather eat instant noodles every day than ask his parents for money.</span></li>
- <li><span class="hanzi">我 宁可 把 这些 东西 送 给 陌生 人，也不 会 扔掉。</span> <span class="trans">I'd rather give these old things to strange people than throw it away.</span></li>
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- <h2 id="using-宁可-with-也要">Using <span class="hanzist">宁可</span> with <span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 80); font-family: NotoSansCJKsc; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">也要</span></h2>
- <p>In this construction <span class="hanzi">宁可</span> is used a little differently. <span class="hanzi">宁可</span> is followed by unfavorable actions while <span class="hanzi">也要</span> is followed by things that you desire or something that you intend to achieve.</p>
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- <div class="deux"><span class="hanzist">宁可 ……，也要 ……</span><br/></div>
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- <p>Here the speaker must pay a price in order to complete or gain something, a bit like "<b>even though X, I'm still willing to do Y.</b>"</p>
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- <li><span class="hanzi">我 宁可 几 天 不 睡觉，也要 完成 这 个 项目。</span> <span class="trans">I would be willing not to sleep for a few days just to finish this project.</span></li>
- <li><span class="hanzi">他们 宁可 花 光 所有 钱，也要 治 好 女儿 的 病。</span> <span class="trans">They would spend all my money to cure their daughter's disease.</span></li>
- <li><span class="hanzi">我们 宁可 多 花 点 钱，也要 解决 这 个 问题。</span> <span class="trans">We'd rather spend some more money to solve this problem.</span></li>
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- <h2 id="using-宁可-with-与其">Using <span class="hanzist">宁可</span> with <span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 80); font-family: NotoSansCJKsc; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">与其</span></h2>
- <p>For more information, you can click <a href="Expressing_"Prefer...rather_than"_with_"yuqi...buru"" title="wikilink">与其</a>.</p>
- <h2 id="see-also">See Also</h2>
- <h2 id="sources-and-further-reading">Sources and further reading</h2>
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- <li>Boya Chinese Upper Intermediate 1 (<span class="hanzi">博雅汉语中级冲刺篇</span>) (pp. 196) </li>
- <li>New Practical Chinese Reader 5 (<span class="hanzi">新实用汉语课本5</span>) (pp. 180) </li>
- <li><span class="hanzi">卓越汉语－公司实战篇</span> (pp. 84, 99) </li>
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