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what is the purpose of 起来in this phrase? 把被子收起来吧?let's put the quilt way in other circumstances, qilai means to get up but there there is a different meaning, and from the definitions i can't decide which definition is occurring here. 1. used after a verb indicating beginning and continuation of an action or a state 2. indicating an upward movement 3. bringing things together 4. after a perception verb expressing preliminary judgement 谢谢!
June 8, 2014
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the use of 好 大家好! 请帮我 with this character, most obvious meaning is that it is "good". but in my phrase book and the dictionaries i'm using, i've encountered a new way to use it and i don't really get the explanation. 把被子叠好 - Bǎ bèizi dié hǎo - fold the quilt 把信叠好- Bǎ xìn dié hǎo - fold the letter dictionary says "it is used after verbs to indicate finishing or finishing satisfactorily...and gives this examples 这件事他做不好 - Zhè jiàn shì tā zuò bùhǎo - he can't do the job well 我把他的病治好了 - Wǒ bǎ tā de bìng zhìhǎo le - i cured his illness i still don't get it, what is 好hǎo's purpose in these phrases?
June 8, 2014
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counting in ten thousands in 中文 你好啊! Hi again, please help me with this question if we are counting in 10 thousands, does 110,000 mean 十一万 or is 一十万一万 more appropriate? thanks a lot! 谢谢
May 17, 2014
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大家好!can someone help translating large numbers please? so basially after doing a bit of reading, i now know that asian numbers are said in ten thousands, when you start getting to the big numbers. so 1,234,567 is 一百二十三万四千五百六七 155,456,564 is 一亿五千五百四十五万六千五百六十四 (is this even right? lol) How is this written then? 11,000(eleven thousand) is it 一万一千? 10,300 is it 一万零三百 or 一万三百? 谢谢!
May 17, 2014
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the 儿 character 嗨!你好! what the reason for using this character apart from people from the north using it like below i.e 你去哪里? (southern) 你去哪儿? (northern). when i listened to a podcast the other day, the speakers said "a moment" was yidianr , but the dictionary also had yidian also 'see you in a moment" some say yihuir jian, but dictionary also has "yihui" is it important to use 儿? or can it be discarded, is it some kind of dialect?
May 10, 2014
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how to say "see you in three days" 你好啊! Can i get help with translating the words below! so see you later is 回头见 see you tomorrow is 明天见 what is "see you in three days then?" or "see you in three years", or in three hours? 谢谢你!hi guys, i meant "see you in three days", exclude the then, thank you so much!
May 9, 2014
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Please translate these words, 谢谢你 大家好! I’m trying to make a bunch of flashcards and title them, except I don’t know which words to use, (my dictionary has too many variations). Anyway… What are these titles in mandarin? Please don’t translate the words in the brackets, that’s just an explanation so you know the context in which I’m talking about the words. Numbers (for flashcards with the numbers 1 to a billion) Common Greetings (the content is about common greetings used in china) Thank you!
May 8, 2014
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What is the correct phonetic(pinyin) for these sets of characters? What is the correct phonetic(pinyin) for these sets of characters? If someone asks “ni hai hao ba?“ 你还好吧? You can say” same as usual” Which is 和平常一样 He ping chang yi yang What I’m confused about is, is it Heping chang yiyang Or He pingchang yiyang? Heping=peaceful chang=always, common ,usual pingchang=usual, common
May 6, 2014
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numbers in chinese okay i'm past learning about numbers but just wanted to confirm what i'm thinking is right...or wrong. 1,000,768 would be 一白万另七白六十八 ? 2,254,767 would be 两百万两十万五万四千七百六十七? or (and this is where i got confused) be cause what i just wrote is literally like saying two million, two hundred thousand, fifty thousand, four thousand, seven hundred, sixty, seven could i just say 两百万两白五十四白万七百六十七 which is like two million, two hundred and fifty eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty seven 谢谢!
April 29, 2014
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