Monday, September 3, 2007

Lesson 7 - 他们的朋友。

今天我们学会了用“们”还有“的”。
Today we learned to use 们 men2 to make nouns plural. Just add the character 们 after a noun and it changes from singular to plural. Example:
我 becomes 我们
I becomes We

他 becomes 他们
He becomes They

We also learned to make write in the possesive. In English we add 's to the end of a noun to make it show ownership. In Chinese we add the character 的 de. Examples:
我 becomes 我的
I becomes my, mine

你 becomes 你的
You becomes Your

Putting the to things we learned together we can make a sentence like, "We are your students."
我们是你的学生。
wo3 men2 shi4 ni3 de xue2 sheng1.

Have fun with this. The Chinese language is really quite simple. Eventually, you'll wish you had learned it instead of English as a child.
好好玩!再见!

1 comment:

Ben and Brandy said...

Xie xie Nick lao shi! Ni jiao de hen hao.


-Ben