arthas

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From :   lawrence

Date : 2008-02-29 / 12:40PM

hi benny,just a quick question, how to say ‘later’ and ‘almost’ in mandarin? like, for instance:
1) I will eat rice later
2) I almost drop my handphone

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managerbenny

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 benny bennysland.com 
2008-02-29 / 01:30PM

ni hao Lawrence!

later = yǐ hǒu, but in your case later is " děng yi xià or yǐ huì er" which literally means wait a moment, therefore your sentence is :

wǒ děng yi xià /yí huì er chī = I will eat rice later

And almost is “jī hū”, I almost drop my hand phone = wǒ jī hū diào le wǒ de shǒu jī

Benny

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arthas

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 lawrence hotmail.com 
2008-02-29 / 05:35PM

Benny, Xie4 xie ni3 de hui2 da2 :)

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steven

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 Steven Gilmore gmail.com 
2008-03-07 / 01:28PM

Those words are very useful!

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