In the upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right corner

[Staarkali]

Hello all,

easy question: looking at a screen, picture, etc. how do you say:
In the upper left corner
In the upper right corner
In the lower left corner
In the lower right corner

Thanks in advance!

 

[BODYholic]

In Chinese we say "left" + "upper" + "corner". I believe you can figure it out yourself.

 

[Lethargic]

In the upper left corner: 在左上角

 

[looli23]

In the upper left corner
在左上角
In the upper right corner
在右上角
In the lower left corner
在左下角
In the lower right corner
在右下角



the basic form is: 在+左/右+上/下+角

 

[Staarkali]

Thanks all for your swift and accurate answers

 

[nic456]

the basic form is: 在+左/右+上/下+角

It looks to me that 右上+noun is used as an adjective, but you would use 左上部 as an adverb, correct?

谢谢

 

[zhg]

Hi nic,

左/右+上/下+角 are used together as new nouns,角 is what we called 中心语（if I remember correctly, 左/右+上/下 are modifiers and they are also nouns）,在 is a preposition, 在+左/右+上/下+角 are called 介词词组 functioning as adeverbs. Your question with the part of 左上部 seems to be a little bit unclerar to me, can you give a sentence in which 左上部 is used as an adverb ? So that forum members can see what they can do to help you.

Best regards.

 

[nic456]

@zhg Thanks for your reply!
Delete the symbol in the upper left/top left corner 在左上角删除符号
Delete the top left/upper left symbol 删除左上部符号

 

[zhg]

You could try 删除左上角的符号，删除左上方的符号*.

*If it's not in the corner, you want to describe an approximate direction, 方 seems appropriate.However, I don't know if 部 is grammatically acceptable here, but I suggest you to use 方 which is more commonly said in Chinese.

 

[SuperXW]

I usually don't say 左上部 either.