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Crystal Dianne Yutiamco
Date : 2008-04-21 / 04:20PM
Instead of using “Ni yao shen me?” when asking: “What do you want?” could I use “Shen me ni yao?” instead? If not, why?
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Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2008-02-28 Language : None Posts : 7 Responses : 24 Comments : 1 |
| | lawrence hotmail.com
2008-04-21 / 07:24PM | | Hi Crystal Dianne Yutiamco, unfortunately you can’t say that way.. In chinese speaking, we dont normally follow the way we speak english. So for instant, we dont say “nǎ li nǐ yào qù?” for the english sentence “Where are you going?” Instead we say “nǐ yào qù nǎ li?”
Remember, in chinese speaking, the senctence structure is normally like this:
Subject — Time — Place — Prepositional Phrase — Verb — Object
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Chinese Mandarin :Registered on : 2008-02-28 Language : None Posts : 7 Responses : 24 Comments : 1 |
| | lawrence hotmail.com
2008-04-21 / 07:26PM | | sorry, let me repeat the sentence structure again:
Subject – Time – Place – Prepositional Phrase – Verb – Object
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Chinese Mandarin :Registered on : 2007-01-01 Language : English, Mandarin Chinese Posts : 0 Responses : 2359 Comments : 75 |
| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2008-04-21 / 07:47PM | | xie xie ni Lawrence. Also “what” in Chinese we put it at the end of the sentence in most cases.
Benny
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2008-05-02 / 10:18AM | | | |
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