![]() ![]() The most common object people will use for the verb 'to eat' is rice, 饭 fàn, since in China it is eaten with almost every meal. In order to say "I eat" or "I am eating" in Chinese, you have to include what is being eaten, you cannot use 吃 just by itself. The verb 'to eat', 吃 chī, is one of these. In Mandarin Chinese, there are a lot of verbs that generally cannot be used without an object. Note: You can say 我很不高兴, which is similar to saying “I am very not happy” i.e. You also don’t drink tea / You don’t drink tea, either.Īnother thing to note about 不 is that when we want to say “I am not happy” or “I am not tall”, we don’t need the 很 anymore. To negate a sentence, you simply add the word 不 bù (no) before the verb. For both, you generally have the subject (who is performing the action), followed by the verb (what that person or thing is doing), and lastly the object (what is receiving the action). Nǐ hěn gāoxìng, wǒ yě hěn gāo xìng.Ĭhinese sentences and English sentences have a very similar word order. 也 can also be used in the phrase "If X is. It must always come after the subject and before the verb. ![]() The word for “also” or “too” is much less flexible in Chinese than in English. Pinyin in brackets is the actual pronunciation as a result of the change of tone.Since 很 is used so often like this, it oftentimes doesn’t mean “very”, just a link between a noun and an adjective. It goes between the subject (who or what we are describing) and the adjective (what we are describing it as). The most common word used to do this is 很 hěn, which literally means very. When we want to describe something we don’t use the verb “to be”, we have to put something else before an adjective. It is normally used as a return sentence after being asked the same question. 呢 ne is placed at the end of a sentence to ask “how about…?/what about…?”. What’s his surname? (literal translation: What is he surnamed?” What’s your name? (literal translation: What name are you called?) What’s your name? (literal translation: What are you called?) The noun at the end is an option to make the question more specific. You can use “subject + verb + 什么 + (noun)?” pattern. The question word for “what” in Chinese is 什么 shénme. You only need to replace the part you want to question about with a question word. The word order for questions in Chinese is the same as statements. (literal translation: You are surnamed Wang.) (literal translation: She is surnamed Li.) To ask about surname (family name/last name) in particular, you can use 姓 xìng which means “to be surnamed” in a similar pattern with 叫. (literal translation: He is called/named Andy.) (literal translation: I am called/named Max.) 叫 jiào means “to call/name” or “to be called/named” and is commonly used to introduce names. You can use the pattern “subject + 叫 + name” as your first practice. When it comes to statements, for both, you generally have the subject (who is performing the action), followed by the verb (what that person or thing is doing), and lastly the object (what is receiving the action). Please note that personal pronouns remain the same for subject and object in Chinese.Ĭhinese sentences and English sentences have a very similar word order. In English, personal pronouns for subject and object may be different, such as, “I” for the subject and “me” for the object. Similar to English, personal pronouns in Chinese substitute regular nouns to avoid repeating the same word for many times. Lastly, when it is followed by any other tone, it becomes a falling 4th tone yì. When 一 is followed by a falling tone (4th tone) yì it turns into a rising (2nd tone) yí. When 一 is used as an independent number or as part of a series of numbers, it is pronounced with a high tone yī. When you have a 3rd tone followed by any other non-3rd tone syllable, it only lowers, it doesn’t rise at the end. There are two main rules for how to pronounce the 3rd tone: When you have two 3rd tones together, the first one becomes a 2nd tone (rising tone). Here we’ll take a quick look at how the 3rd tone changes. There are three main places where you will see this: with all 3rd tones (low then rising tones), with the character 一 yī (1/one), and with the character 不 bù (no, not). Sometimes Chinese tones change based on the tone that follows it. There are four main tones and one neutral tone in Mandarin Chinese to distinguish words and grammatical uses. 63.1 To Someone/From Someone's PerspectiveĬhinese Grammar Wiki and their accompanying Memrise flashcards GREETING 1. ![]()
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