hey everyone i just have a couple of questions; hope the community can be of some help;
1) can ni, wo, and women be used interchangeably without changing anything else in the sentence?
-for example in Lesson 1.4 (Ordering Drinks), one of the lines spoken in Mandarin is "Wo yao yibei Zhongguo cha" I was wondering if you could use 'Women' in place of 'Wo' to mean "We would like a cup of XYZ"
or would there be another way of ordering drinks for others at your table?
2) I was just confused a little on Chinese sentence structure; is there any set structure that Mandarin follows?
xiexie .
Ni, Wo, Women,
enzo32ferrari
August 8, 2011
Oggiedoggy
August 8, 2011
Concerning your grammar question see here: http://mandarin.about.com/od/grammar/a/sentencestruct.htm
As for your other question you could say 'women' we would like a cup of zhongguo cha, but to me it sounds like you are ordering just one drink for all of you! Instead try "women yao x bei zhongguo cha" OR one new form "qing lai x bei zhongguo cha" with qing meaning please and lai meaning bring (请 and 来).
Lin-Ping
August 15, 2011
Well done again Oggiedoggy!
Lin-Ping
August 15, 2011
Keep on the good spirit enzo32ferrri.
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