看的(得)見 / 看見

[tyroesse]

你好!I've just started learning Chinese and found a song from a Mulan movie. There's a line there 我看的見雲在天上混亂的飛 which I more or less understand, but I'd like to ask about the phrase 看的見. I looked it up but the dictionaries and Google only suggest 看見. Is there some difference between 看的見 and 看見? Or is 看的見 a custom solution for a song to preserve the rhythme, maybe?
谢谢!

 

[zhg]

I think it might be a mistake normally we say 看得见,de(轻声）expresses certain degree of possibility as in 你看得见看不见 it focus on whether you are able to see it or not .As for the lyrics I have no idea what it means.

Edit Also It should be 混乱地飞,Though I do not know what it is

 

[gan-tang]

first of all, it should be "看得见“,not "看的见”, because "看 "is a verb, you can not use "的",
second, "看得见“ means "I can see it", its focus is "can",
third, "看见" means" I see it",its focus is "see".

 

[xiaolijie]

看的見 is the informal way of writing 看得见. With 得 in between the word, the meaning of "can" is inserted: "see" vs "can see". This is a very commonly use structure:
做得完
看得懂
找得到
The opposite of "can (see)" is "cannot see", and for the negative in Chinese you simply replace 得 with 不:
看不见: can't see
做不完: can't finish
看不懂: can't understand
找不到: can't find

Also from zhg's post above, note that in Chinese there are three particles "de": 得,地 and 的. In informal context, native speakers often use just 的 for all of them, and that is the reason it sometimes seems confusing.

 

[tyroesse]

Thank you a lot for your detailed answers! One question off my loooong list about the structure of the Chinese language

 

[Lianxin]

看得見 can see
I can see a light in her window.我看得見她窗戶內的一盞燈。

 

[Ida1]

lso from zhg's post above, note that in Chinese there are three particles "de": 得,地 and 的.

It is very easy to confuse ‘的’ with ‘得’ and ‘地’. There is a simple method to distinguish them by the structure of the phrase, although it can’t include all the situations.

的：
形容词/代词 ＋的＋ 名词
adjective/pronoun ＋的＋ noun
美丽的云/我的书

得：
动词 ＋得＋ 副词
verb ＋得＋ adverb
看得见/做得到

地：
副词 ＋地＋ 动词
adverb ＋地＋ verb
混乱地飞/慢慢地走

These language structures above are commonly used.

 

[rickqin]

be able to