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From :   saturnhexagon

Date : 2008-08-20 / 01:23PM

I see you did a video on emergency. Xie Xie, but if you could help me on He, Her, Them, Us. His, Hers, Theirs, Ours. Bao Zhong, Benny.

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Jenny

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 Jenny Li hotmail.com 
2008-08-20 / 01:50PM

He=tā, in Chinese character "他";
She=tā, in Chinese character "她";
eg: He likes me= tā xǐ huān wǒ

His=tā de “他的”, Her= tā de “她的”
eg: His mother is pretty=tā de mā ma hěn piào liàng.

Them=tā men
eg: I have told them= wǒ yǐ jīng gào sù tā men.

Us=wǒ men
eg:Please let us know if you need help=qǐng nǐ gào sù wǒ men rú guǒ nǐ xū yào bāng zhù.
help=bang zhu

Theirs= tā men de
Their friends come from China= tā men de pèng yǒu lái zì zhōng guò.

Please note the place of each word in the sentence.

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-08-20 / 02:25PM

Hi saturnhexagon,

In Chinese, we don’t have “theirs, hers, ours”, we only use “her, their and our”

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 Rob comcast.net 
2008-08-21 / 12:14PM

I think I got it, thank you both.

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