Mandarin learning guide
Learn with 幾分之幾
This guide follows the song’s movement from first vivid memory, to gratitude, to loss. It is built from the supplied lyric lines only, with attention to the repeated phrase 幾分之幾 and the changes around it.
What to listen for
The lyrics move between a remembered scene, direct gratitude, and later separation. Several lines repeat the same core phrase—幾分之幾—first to thank someone for becoming part of the self, then to thank them for having once been part of the self. That shift, together with lines about walking into life, leaving life, and being unable to return to a certain dawn, gives the song its clear emotional and grammatical contrast between presence and absence.
- Understand how repeated lines change meaning when the tense or time frame changes.
- Recognize and use phrases for gratitude, memory, and change, including 成為, 曾經, and 離開.
- Read the song’s descriptive syntax, especially lines that place a person inside a life or a memory.
How the song moves
Opening memory
The song begins with a remembered day, wind, and a scene described as very beautiful, leading into a direct identification of 'you'.
Gratitude and closeness
The lyrics shift into thanking the other person for entering life and becoming 'my part', then adding that being more complete is because of you.
Loss and after-effect
Later lines move to leaving, what cannot be returned to, and the remaining self that keeps aging, ending with a request to remember past love.
Translation choices
谢谢你成为了我的几分之几
- Natural English
- Thank you for being a part of me.
- Why
- This keeps the gratitude and the part-whole idea of 幾分之幾 without forcing a literal fraction in English.
如果我又更完整一点也是因为你
- Natural English
- If I am a bit more complete, it's also because of you.
- Why
- The line contrasts slight increase in completeness with 因為你, so 'a bit more complete' fits the measured tone of 更完整一點.
留下每天都在变老的我
- Natural English
- Leaving behind the me who ages every day.
- Why
- This rendering preserves the ongoing sense of 每天都在變老 and the image of what remains after the departure.
Useful Mandarin from the song
Used here to describe someone entering the speaker’s life. It can also describe entering a room, a phase, or another situation.
This links a person to a new state or role. In the song, it marks someone becoming part of the speaker.
This introduces a condition and keeps the main idea moving forward. The lyric uses it to hold onto the relationship despite mistakes.
This marks something that was true before but is no longer present. It is central to the song’s final shift from present gratitude to past memory.
Listen closely
- Listen for how the repeated phrase 幾分之幾 changes across lines 8, 15, and 18: it moves from present thanks to past thanks.
- Notice the contrast between 走進了我的生命 and 離開了我的生命; the same structure frames arrival and departure.
- Pay attention to lines with 就算 and 如果, which soften or condition the statement that follows.
Check your understanding
Which line shows the shift from present gratitude to past gratitude?
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L0018: 謝謝你曾經是我的幾分之幾。
What does 走進了我的生命 express in the song?
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It means someone entered the speaker’s life.