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Liçao 4

This document provides Mandarin Chinese vocabulary and grammar lessons. It introduces common nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It explains word order in Chinese sentences and how to use time, location, and duration phrases. It also covers number words up to 1 billion and asking for locations using "zai nali".

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Liçao 4

This document provides Mandarin Chinese vocabulary and grammar lessons. It introduces common nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It explains word order in Chinese sentences and how to use time, location, and duration phrases. It also covers number words up to 1 billion and asking for locations using "zai nali".

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Lesson 4

Dì Sì Kè

Vocabulary
Nouns

1. Photo = zhào pìan


2. The end = jié shù

3. Timetable = shi jiān biâo

4. Bus stop = gōng che zhèng

5. Bus = Gōng Chē

6. taxi = chū zhū che

7. Town = xiâo zhèn

8. Fear = haì pà / kông PA


9. Paper = zhî
10. Package = xiâo bāo / xiâo dài

11. Park = gōng yuán

12. apartament = gōng yù / fáng jiān


13. Noise = zào yin
14. Credit card = xìng yòng ka
15. Work = gōng zùo

Adjective
1. Full = mân dè
2. Busy = máng dè
3. Dangerous = wēi xián dè
4. Safe = an qúan dè
5. Excellent = yoū xìu dè

verbs
1. To steal = toū
2. To travel = lü xing
3. To walk = Sàn bù / zoú
4. To cook = zùo cài / zhû
5. To know ( people ) = rèn shi

Word order of Chinese


sentences

Sub + Verb + indirect Obj + direct Obj


He gave me a book
Tā géi wó yì bén shū.

Sub+ Verb + direct Obj


I eat a piece of cake
Wo chī yì kùai dàn gāo
Sub + Prepositional phrase + verb + direct
Obj
He eats dinner with his girlfriend
Tā gēn tā dè nü pēng yoú chī wán fan.

Location phrase

Sub + location phrase + verb + Obj


I drink beer at home
Wó zài jīa lî hē pī jíu.

Time phrase
Sub+ time phrase + verb + obj
He does morning workout everyday .
Tā méi tīan zùo záo Chao

Note
Normally time phrase comes after the
subject but when two times are compared
or when times is emphasized , it comes in
the beginning of the setenence .

Jīn tīan wó qù xué xiào dàn shì zúo tiān wó


qù
yī yùan .
Today I go to school but yesterday I went to
hospital.
Dàn shi = but

Time phrase order


Year , month , date , day , part of the
day( AM , PM ) , hour , minute .

When time phrase and location phrase are


in the time phrase , time phrase comes first

I go to school everyday
Sub + time phrase + location phrase + verb +
direct obj
Wó méi tiān zài jīa lî chī záo fan.
Záo fàn / chēn = breakfast

Wú fàn / chēn = lunch

Wán fàn / chēn = dinner

Duration
Duration come directly after the verb and
no preposition is required to use like in
English .

Wó zài zhè lî zhù le sān nían.


I live here for three years
Zùo tiān , wó sàn bù le sān shí fen
Yesterday I walked for thirty minutes.

Use of "Le"

Taì = too / very


Tài + Adj + le

Tài cháng le
Too long

Tài gāo le
Too high
Tài cháng le
Too long

As we learned in the previous lesson " gùo


le " is used to describe past tenese. Le also
means the completed actions but " le " can
combine with any other factors to mean
new meaning .
If le is included ,( gùo ) can be dropped .

Wo záo dào le.


I found it .

Wó maí le Zhè gè
I bought it .

Wó mēn dūo qù le.


We all went .

Wó jīn tiān záo shàng chī le záo chēn


Today morning I ate breakfast .

Le can also means already !

Láo bán nē ?
Tā zúo le
Where is the boss?
He ( already) left

Yòng wó dè chē
Wó mēn yóu chē le
Use my car .
We (already) have a car

Tā zhì dào le
He ( already ) knew

Le + mā
When le combined with mā , it become
question ( have you done it yet ?)

Nî chī fàn le mā?


Have you eaten yet ?

Nî dè nü pēng you zháo dào gōng zùo le


MA
Did your girlfriend find the job yet ?

Láo shí wèn le nî mā ?


Did the teacher asked you ?
Number 100 and higher

100 = Yì bái
1000 = yì qīan
10,000= yì wàn
100,000= shí wàn
1,000,000= baí wàn
10,000,000= qīan wàn
100,000,000 = yì yì
1,000,000,000 = shí yì
Asking for location
When asking for location , place
+ zài ná lî

Toilet = xí shóu jiān


Train station = húo che zhèng
Shop = dìan ( you can combine
with nouns to form the
respective shops )
E.g ( shoes shop = xié Dian
Clothes shop = yī fû diàn)
Hotel = jíu dìan
Bank = yíng hēng
Department store = bái hùo
shāng dìan
Market = shì cháng
Supermarket = chāo shi
Police station = jíng chá jû
Embassy = dà shī guán

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