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From :   Karen delos Reyes

Date : 2009-03-28 / 10:42PM

hi benny..

just want to ask.. what is the difference between “hen” used in wo hen hao and “fei chang” used in ni de yan jing fei chang piao liang??
i got confused with these 2 words because they both mean “very”

xie xie!

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 Kevin yahoo.com 
2009-03-29 / 05:38AM

“fei chang” is more like “extremely”, to a higher degree than “hen”

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-03-29 / 11:24AM

Yes, that’s correct. Kevin. “Hěn” is more functions as “to be”. Because in Chinese “wǒ hao” doesn’t exist, we always say “wǒ hěn hǎo”

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