Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language University of Oxford

Basic Spoken Mandarin

5. shopping 

You click on the Chinese characters, Chinese sentences or the headphone icons to hear the pronunciation. Place the cursor on the English words to view Pinyin for the pronunciation and the Chinese word order.
New words Additional phrases and words New phrases
This 这 Many 多 How much is this? 这个多少钱？
[A common measure word for objects] 个 few 少 Is this for sale? 这个卖不卖?
How much 多少 That 那 It's too expensive. 太贵了
Money 钱 Big 大 Do you have anything cheaper? 有便宜的吗？
Sell 卖 Small 小 I'm not going to buy this. 不买
Extremely, too 太 No good 不好    
Expensive 贵 1，2，3，4，5，6，7，8，9,  10 1，2，3，4，5，6，7，8，9,10， I am having a look 我看看
Cheap, reasonable (price) 便宜 Hundred 百 What would you like (to buy)? 买什么
[A sentence particle implies excessiveness] 了 I, me 我    
Buy 买 [Sentence particle] 的    

Exercises

How do you say

How much is that? This is too expensive. That is too big. Do you have anything cheaper? Is this for sale? I don't have much money. This one is no good, that one is good.

It's too much / many.

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