Lesson one Eating
(part one)
Week two 什么好吃
Learn the following sentence
Shénme hăo chī? |
What good (to) eat |
Play Media What is nice to eat?
Shénme what is a
question word which used as the subject of the question here. Hăochī good/nice to eat
or
delicious
is used as a verb in this question. Hăo can be place before any verb of actions to indicate that something is
nice to… or easy to…
New words
Zhè | Play Media | this |
Nà | Play Media | that |
Ge | Play Media | a measure word |
Fàn | Play Media |
meal (e,g. chīfàn to eat a meal, )
or cooked rice |
Hăo | Play Media | good, nice Hăo can be used as a stative verb in sentences. A stative verb is like an adjective with a verb to be. For example French food is good, but English food is not good. In Chinese it will be France food good, Britain food no good.. |
Hăochī | Play Media | nice to eat, delicious |
Zhè ge | Play Media | this one |
Nà ge | Play Media | that one |
Bù bú | Play Media | no, not. Bù not has two tones. when it is followed by a falling tone, it should be pronounced in the rising tone. |
Supplementary words
Ròu |
Play Media | meat |
Jī | Play Media | chicken
|
Niú | Play Media | ox |
Jī and niú can be followed by ròu to form new noun phrases. For example Jī ròu chicken meat.
Use the following word-order-table to form sentences.
Word order |
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subject (nouns and pronouns) | adverbs and modal verbs | verbs | description of objects | object (nouns and pronouns) |
Zhège this one | Bù not | Hăochī to be nice to eat | ||
Hăo to be good |
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Fàn cooked rice, meal |
Cài
green vegetable, dishes of food e.g. zhè
ge cài
this dish |
Shénme
what |
Listening to the following sentences by clicking on the following links. Hover the mouse over "Answer" to view the answers.
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Now you should be able to say the following sentences in Chinese
Is Chinese food nice to eat? | Play Media |
Is this dish nice to eat? | Play Media |
Is that Chinese dish nice to eat? | Play Media |
Is French food nice to eat? | Play Media |
What sort of food isn't nice to eat? | Play Media |
I eat meat, but don't eat veg. | Play Media |
Eating a lot of meat is not good (for you). | Play Media |
Chinese food doesn't have much meat. | Play Media |
Eglish food had a lot of meat. | Play Media |
I eat chicken, but don't eat beef. | Play Media |