List: Mandarin restart: four sentence patterns
Patterns for requests, quantities, locations and keeping a conversation going.
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Original proposed material for a restarting adult learner; difficulty describes this material, not a tested proficiency level.
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| Subject + 想 + verb states what someone would like to do: 我想喝茶 = I'd like to drink tea. 想 can also mean think, so use the sentence to choose the sense. | Grammar | ||||
| Use 一杯茶 for one cup of tea. 杯 measures a cupful; it does not replace the noun. 一 is written yī but normally pronounced yì before first-tone 杯. | Grammar | ||||
| 书店在这里 means the bookshop is here. 书店在哪里 asks where it is. The question word stays in the position where the answer would go. | Grammar | ||||
| 请说慢一点儿 asks someone to speak a little more slowly. 请再说一遍 asks for one more repetition. These are useful repair requests when conversation moves too fast. | Grammar |