Learn Chinese for Free—Lesson 23

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Lesson 23 of 360

Today's Chinese characters:

很忙

The other Chinese characters contained in this lesson have already been studied previously. You can just click on them and go back to the corresponding lesson.

Sentences without verbs are very common in Chinese. The adjectival predicate sentence is one of them.

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Characters' Essentials

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忙
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máng
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[adjective] Busy

Description and Examples

How many verbs do these conversations contain?

Dialogue 10

A:
你好吗？
B:
我很好。
A:
你忙吗？
B:
我很忙。你忙吗？
A:
我不忙。

Dialogue 11

A:
老师，您好！
B:
你好！
A:
您忙吗？
B:
不忙。

Sentence Structure 14
Adjectival Predicate Sentence

The adjectival predicate sentence is a sentence with an adjective as the main element of its predicate. This type of sentence describes the state which a person or thing is in. No 是 is used to join the predicate with the subject. In an affirmative sentence the adjectival predicate is usually preceded by 很, which is a weakened adverb here without much significance of an adverb of degree.

Examples

我很好。
老师很忙。

Without 很, comparison or contrast is often implied.

Example

老师忙，我不忙。

However, in answering an alternative question, 很 may be left out.

Example

A:
医生忙不忙？
B:
医生忙。

不 is used before the predicate for negation.

Example

A:
医生忙不忙？
B:
医生不忙。

PRONUNCIATION RULE: As said in lesson 6, when two third tones come together, the first third tone changes into the second tone, that is: 3rd + 3rd changes into 2nd + 3rd.

If more than two third tones are in succession, you can both:

1)Pronounce only the last third tone as so, while change all the others into the second tone, that is 3rd + 3rd + 3rd + 3rd changes into 2nd + 2nd + 2nd + 3rd
3+3+3+3 ---> 2+2+2+3

or

2)Alternate 2nd and 3rd tones so that the last third tone is pronounced as so, that is 3rd + 3rd + 3rd + 3rd changes into 2nd + 3rd + 2nd + 3rd
3+3+3+3 ---> 2+3+2+3

Example

我很好

pronunciation: wó hén hǎo

or: wǒ hén hǎo


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