Chinese 1
Study Guide for vocabulary quiz on Thursday, 9-8-2011
lǎoshī
老師 teacher (noun)
xiàozhǎng
校 長 principal (noun)
d à jiā
大家 everyone (noun)
zǎo
早 early (adjective);
morning
x u é shēng
學 生 student
d à jiāzǎo
n ǐ
你
(noun)
you (2nd person pronoun
(common phrase)
singular)
lǎoshīzǎo
w ǒ
我 I (1st person pronoun singular)
hǎo
好 good, well, fine
(adjective/adverb)
老師早 good morning, teacher
(common phrase)
xiàozhǎng z ǎ o
校 長 早 good morning, principal
(common phrase)
n ǐ hǎo
你好
大家早 good morning, everyone
hi, common greeting to
another person of
similar status
(common phrase)
lǎoshīhǎo
老師好 hi, greeting to a teacher
(common phrase)
xiàozhǎng h ǎ o
校 長 好 hi, greeting to a principal
(common phrase)
n e
呢 1. tag-question marker
(interrogative particle)
2. ask for the where about of the
subject
m a
嗎
question marker used after a
statement (interrogative particle)
used after a declarative
sentence to make a yes/no question
n ǐ hǎo m a
d à
你好嗎
jiā
很 very (adverb, intensifier)
大 big (adjective)
how are you?
hěn
家 home (noun)
hěnzǎo
很早 very early
hěnhǎo
很好
men
very good, very well
w ǒ hěnhǎo
w ǒ men
我很好 I’m fine
t ā
t ā
t ā
們 pronoun plural marker
我們 we/us
t ā
n ǐ men
他/她/牠/它 he/she/it (3 person
你們 you
singular pronoun)
t ā men
rd
他們 they
y ě
也 also (adverb)
t ā y ě hěnhǎo
他也很好
he’s fine, too
shì
是 1. be/is/am/are (copula)
2. yes (adverb)
b ú shì
不是 no, not (adverb)
w ǒ shì
我是
I am
w ǒ b ú shì
我不是 I’m not
n ǐ shì
你是 you are
n ǐ b ú shì
你不是 you’re not
t ā shì
他是 he/she is
t ā b ú shì
他不是 he/she is not
x ǐ huan
喜歡 to like
b ú x ǐ huan
不喜歡 do not like
z à i jiàn
再見 Goodbye
d e
的 (possessive marker)