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Jon Ashley
Date : 2007-10-29 / 12:19AM
I can say wo bu shi meiguoren and then I can say wo mei shi meiguoren. When can I use mei and when can I use bu
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| | benny bennysland.com
2007-10-29 / 08:57AM | | ni hao Jon, welcome to Bennysland.
You can’t say wo mei shi mei guo ren. It doesn’t make sense in Chinese.
“mei” is the negative form of “you”, it means have not or don’t have, for example:
wǒ méi yǒu BMW = I don’t have BMW
wǒ méi (yǒu) qù guò Beijing = I haven’t been to Beijing
For other cases, we use “bu” as the negative word. | |
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