tones
Can You explain please what You do in mandarin once You have three 3rd tones in a sequence.
Example:
我很 喜欢... ：I mean where You change the tones from 3rd to 2nd?
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tones
Can You explain please what You do in mandarin once You have three 3rd tones in a sequence.
Example:
我很 喜欢... ：I mean where You change the tones from 3rd to 2nd?
first divide the sentence into meaning groups: 我 / 很喜欢
(我 is always in 3rd)
and for three characters, there are two forms:
1. 展览/馆 2 2 3
2. 小/老虎 3 2 3
for more characters, just divide them into smaller groups.
But actually, it's quite OK if you just speak every character in 3rd, and when you speak fast and fluent, your tones will correct themselves, your tonge will do the job automaticly.
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wo3 hen2 xi3 huan
See http://www.italki.com/entry/171321
小李喜欢 would be xiao2 li2 xi3 huan because 小李 is a single word
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Wow, thank You! Finally someone explained it in understandable way ;)
谢谢 ：D
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As a general rule, when you have three or more third tones successively, change every other third tone before the last to a second tone.
Since the change is to help pronunciation, once you change a third tone to a second, the third tone that appears before it can remain as it is, which is why 我 would remain as a third tone. If you had another third-tone word before 我, then that word would need to be changed to a second tone.
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The way I'd pronounce it is with the 很 changed to the second tone. 我 and 喜 remain as 3rd tone.
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