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Three Ways to Finish a Sentence例 · 我每天工作

Someone asks how your day is going. You can answer with an action (我工作), a description (我很忙), or a quick comment (下雨了). Chinese predicates take several shapes, and an adjective usually describes the subject directly: there’s no 是 between them. 很 often makes that description sound neutral rather than emphatically “very.”

Examples

我每天工作。
Wǒ měitiān gōngzuò.
I work every day.
他很高兴。
Tā hěn gāoxìng.
He is happy.
下雨了。
Xià yǔ le.
It’s raining now.
Hint · 힌트
Do not insert 是 before an adjective: 他很高兴 is the ordinary pattern, not 他是很高兴 in a basic neutral statement.

Vocabulary

ChineseEnglish
měitiān
every day
gōngzuò
to work; work
hěn
often a neutral link before an adjective
gāoxìng
happy; glad
xià yǔ
to rain
le
marks a new situation
tiānqì
weather
xuéshēng
student
lǎoshī
teacher
máng
busy
xǐhuan
to like
kànshū
to read
hǎochī
tasty
lěng
cold
rè
hot
chīfàn
to eat a meal
jīntiān
today
mèimei
younger sister
shuǐguǒ
fruit
mǎi
to buy

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