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From :   Kevin Chaput

Date : 2009-05-14 / 06:39AM

Benny,
Is 我信任你 a usable sentence? Or should it be 我信心你. ?

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-05-14 / 12:22PM

Hi Kevin, “我信任你” is a very good sentence which means “I trust you”. While "我信心你“ doesn’t make any sense in Chinese. Because "信心 = confidence” is a Noun.

You can say “我有信心 = I have confidence“ or ”我对你有信心 = I have confidence on you”

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