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How to express health problems
At the beginning of this video, the instructor Lydia doesn't look very well and then, her partner, Amy, asks her a question.
At the beginning of this video, the instructor Lydia doesn’t look very well and then, her partner, Amy, asks her a question.
- 你怎么了？ (nǐ zěnmele?) What’s the matter with you?
Here is a wordlist which can help you to answer the above question.
- 困(kùn) sleepy
- 饿(è) hungry
- 病(bìng) sick
- 累(lèi) tired
In order to answer the question, you can put the word between “我(wǒ)” and “了(le)”.
Here are some other words about illness.
- 头疼(tóuténg) headache
- 发烧(fāshāo) have a fever
- 拉肚子(lādùzi) have diarrhea
In Chinese, the sentence pattern for general actions is as follows.
Subject + Time + 在 Location + Verb
我晚上在家学中文。 (Wǒ wǎnshang zài jiā xué Zhōngwén.)
I study Chinese at home tonight.
我晚上在家学中文。 (Wǒ wǎnshang zài jiā xué Zhōngwén.)
I study Chinese at home tonight.
“在(zài)” means “at” or “in”,
such as
such as
- “在中国(zài Zhōngguó)”
- ”在上海(zài Shànghǎi)”
- “在学校(zài xuéxiào)”
- “在家(zài jiā)”
Chinese is different from the sentence structure in English, because we always put the time or location before the verb.
For example,
- “在上海学中文(zài Shànghǎ xué Zhōngwén)”
- ”在家休息(zài jiā xiūxi)”
If the time and the location words both occur in a sentence, the time word is put before the location word.
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