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From :   lawrence

Date : 2008-03-05 / 10:03PM

sorry if this have been asked before but i would like to know how to say a sentence when there are 3 or more consecutive third tones..for example:

ni3 gan3 xiao3 kan4 wo3?

thx

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managerbenny

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 benny bennysland.com 
2008-03-05 / 10:21PM

Hi Lawrence the tones will be changed to,

ni gán xiǎo kàn wǒ

Normally, the firsr word becomes tonless, second word becomes second tone, the third word remains the same

Benny

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Keith

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 Keith Werder gmail.com 
2008-03-07 / 11:26AM

Hi, Lawrence! That’s a good question.

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