By Claudia Ross

Sleek Mandarin chinese language Grammar is an cutting edge reference advisor to Mandarin chinese language, combining conventional and function-based grammar in one quantity. Divided into sections heavily associated via vast cross-references, it covers: conventional grammatical different types resembling word order, nouns, verbs and specifiers language services and notions corresponding to conversation options, giving and looking info, expressing apologies, regrets and sympathies. With all grammar issues and capabilities richly illustrated with examples, and a powerful emphasis on modern usage, the major positive factors of this Grammar comprise examples in simplified characters, conventional characters, and romanization (Pinyin) as good as an emphasis on components of specific hassle for newbies of Mandarin chinese language. this is often the appropriate reference grammar for newcomers of Mandarin chinese language in any respect degrees, from ordinary to complicated. No previous wisdom of grammatical terminology is thought and a word list of grammatical phrases is equipped. that includes similar workouts and actions, this Grammar is followed by way of the fashionable Mandarin chinese language Grammar Workbook.

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First horizontal ( héng), then left falling stroke ( pil), then right falling stroke ( nà). Special stroke order rules Rule 1 Write the dot ( / dikn) last if it is positioned at the top right corner of a character. 2 Write the dot ( / dikn) last if it is positioned inside a character. 3 If the character includes the curved left-falling stroke ( / héng zhé pil) and one other component, write the curved left-falling stroke last. 4 If the character consists of more than one horizontal stroke ( héng) and vertical stroke ( / shù), write the vertical stroke first, and the horizontal stroke at the bottom last.

My phone number is 8 6 2 2 5 6 0 2. 2 Numbers 11–19 Numbers 11–19 consist of the number 10 [ shí] followed by the number 1 [ through 9 [ jio] as follows. Note that the number 12 is shí’èr and not G shí likng. 3 shíyr shí’èr shíspn shísì shíwo 16 17 18 19 yr] / shíliù shíqr shíbp shíjio Numbers 20–90 Numbers 20, 30, 40, etc. consist of the numbers 2 [ by the number 10 [ shí] as follows: 20 30 40 50 èrshí spnëhí sìshí woshí 60 70 80 90 èr] through 9 [ jio] followed liùshí qrshí bpshí jioshí The numbers 21, 22, etc.

English distinguishes tens, hundreds, thousands, millions, and up. Numbers between one thousand and one million are read in terms of the numbers of thousands that they contain. Chinese distinguishes the categories of tens, hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands, and hundred millions. Numbers between ten thousand and one-hundred million are read in terms of the number of ten-thousands that they contain. Compare the way that English and Chinese read the following numbers. 3 Formal characters for numbers Observe how these numbers are read in Chinese.

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