can i say this instead if how are you
你 好
你 得 身体 好 吗 ?
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can i say this instead if how are you
你 好
你 得 身体 好 吗 ? Grammatically correct but culturally not cool. Unless that person had a recent discomfort or sickness, it can be construed as you want them not to be well. Chinese avoid unpleasant things at all cost. At the same time, this makes no sense. In the first sentence, you said that the person is good (你 好 = you are well, "how are you" = 你怎样 does not have the same connotation as in English's greeting. It is more like, "what had happened to you?"). These are some of the cultural mine fields when you want to be more creative and wanted to say something not of the norm.
If you are really asking about a person's health, you should leave out 你 好.
As a greeting you can say, 大家好 = we are good. This is a tad more formal as it shows your magnaminity.
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Hi Samar. You can say 你好. means Hello.
Actually we don't say 你身体好吗 for saying hello. It's a little strange.
You could say 最近好吗 which means HOW IS EVERYTHING GOING.
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can i say this instead of how are you
你好，你的身体好吗 ?This sentence in Chinese means "are you well" or "how are you".
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