Learn to Speak Mandarin Chinese Online Free » be in chinese http://freechineseblog.com Learn to Speak Mandarin Chinese Online Free Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:49:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to Say To Be in Mandarin Chinese http://freechineseblog.com/how-to-say-to-be-in-mandarin-chinese/ http://freechineseblog.com/how-to-say-to-be-in-mandarin-chinese/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 15:09:43 +0000 admin http://www.freechineseblog.com/?p=445 Today you’ll learn how to say to be in Mandarin Chinese. There is only one character you need to know: 是, or shì pronounced with the fourth falling tone. There are only two rules you need to know. Rule No. 1: Use shì when describing a noun. For example, 我是大卫 (wǒ shì dā wèi).  Since David is a person or a noun you must use the character shì to represent “to be”.


Rule No. 2: Do not use shì when describing an adjective. For example: 大卫很高兴 (dà wèi hěn gāo xìng), which means “David is very happy”. You see, happy is an adjective so there is no need for the character  shì.

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