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From :   jonathan

Date : 2009-10-01 / 12:41AM

Benny, I use rossta stone software. It is easy to learn vocab but when it comes to grammer…
I have a few questions:
QUESTIONS: zhè ge nǔ rén zài hē shuǐ
In this sentence what does zai and he mean?
And then: zhè ge nǔ rén zài chī fàn.
Why doesn’t this sentence have the he in it? And chi fan means food right?

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-10-01 / 10:16AM

Hi Jonathan,

Rossta stone is a good software for learning vocabularies.

zhè ge nǔ rén zài hē shuǐ = This woman is drinking water.

The grammar here is “zài + verb” which indicates the present tense. And “he = to drink”. “shuǐ = water”

Therefore “zhè ge nǔ rén zài chī fàn = This woman is eating”.

“chīfàn” means “eat food”

Benny


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