"My older brother plays basketball pretty well."
Translation:我的哥哥打篮球打得不错。
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These sentences are actually the same things, even if the main sentence contains modifiers (的,得) for stricter purpose of forming sentences.
Better to include the modifiers in formal writing - that is the difference
If anyone could explain this construction, I would appreciate it. It seems horribly inefficient to me.
Duo's tips are helpful: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/zs/Sports-1/tips
As well as the outside links already posted by hippietrail and Artikyulet.
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Repeating 打 makes it clear that 很不错 is about his playing and not about the game hes playing
Is this about what Chinese Grammar Wiki calls "separable verbs", or is this something else?
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Separable_verb
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It's a little bit about that, and a bit about learning to use the new "de" (得）。 This is "彳部的 ‘得’”， which is used to preface modifiers of verbs. Everything I know about this I learned from this Chinese Pod video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggPbyZN96ss
