{"id":10706,"date":"2019-11-15T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/lesson-016-revision-of-the-usages-of-numbers\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T03:21:07","slug":"lesson-016-revision-of-the-usages-of-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/lesson-016-revision-of-the-usages-of-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 016 Revision of the Usages of Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: Perfect Chinese your way, in o<\/em>nly five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio. I’m Yajie.<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: It’s good to be back.  Zao shang hao Yajie.  Time sure flies. We are already at the end of the week. That means it’s time for us to go over what we’ve learned. <\/span><\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: This week we mainly focused on how to use numbers. Let’s go over Sentences In The week. <\/span><\/span>

***************Sentences in the Week<\/strong>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>During the week we focused on how to use numbers. For example, 2003\u5e74, the year 2003; \u4e00\u6708, January; \u4e09\u6708\uff0cMarch. \u56db\u6708\u4e8c\u5341\u4e94\u53f7 April the 25. All in today’s Chinese Studio.  <\/span><\/span>
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<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: In Chinese, the four figures making up the name of a year are read out as four separate numbers and “\u5e74” is put at the end. For example, this year, 2003\u5e74 (èr líng líng s\u0101n nián), the year 2003. <\/span><\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: 2003\u5e74 (èr líng líng s\u0101n nián).<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie:Sometime people also say \u4e24\u5343\u96f6\u4e09\u5e74.<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: \u4e24\u5343\u96f6\u4e09\u5e74 (li\u01ceng qi\u0101n líng s\u0101n nián).<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: In Chinese the year 2000 is 2000\u5e74 (èr líng líng líng nián).<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: 2000\u5e74 (èr líng líng ling nián).<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: Or you can say\u4e24\u5343\u5e74 (li\u01ceng qi\u0101n nián).<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: Mo<\/em>nth in Chinese is \u6708(yuè). The name of the mo<\/em>nths are produced by combining the numbers 1 to 12 with “\u6708”. <\/span><\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: January is\u4e00\u6708 (y\u012b yuè)\uff0cFebruary is\u4e8c\u6708 (èr yuè), right? <\/span><\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: Exactly! And how to say March?<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: Is it \u56db\u6708(Si yue)?<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: Nope, March in Chinese is \u4e09\u6708 (s\u0101n yuè). Remember we said, the name of the mo<\/em>nths are produced by combining the numbers 1 to 12 with “\u6708”.<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: OK. I see. March is \u4e09\u6708 (s\u0101n yuè).<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: In Chinese, the names of the dates are produced by combining the numbers 1 to 31 with \u53f7, which is the spoken form for date, or \u65e5, the written form. For example, December 25th, Christmas\u5341\u4e8c\u6708\u4e8c\u5341\u4e94\u53f7 (shí èr yuè èrshí w\u01d4 hào).<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: \u5341\u4e8c\u6708\u4e8c\u5341\u4e94\u65e5 (shí èr yuè èrshí w\u01d4 hào). And the New Year is on the \u4e00\u6708\u4e00\u53f7(y\u012b yuè y\u012b hào), right?<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: Right, it’s\u4e00\u6708\u4e00\u53f7(y\u012b yuè y\u012b hào). <\/span><\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie:  If you want to ask a child’s age, you could say “\u4f60\u51e0\u5c81\u4e86\uff1f” (n\u01d0 j\u01d0 suì le?) \u51e0 means how many. And \u5c81 means age.<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: “\u4f60\u51e0\u5c81\u4e86\uff1f” (n\u01d0 j\u01d0 suì le?) <\/span><\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: For an adult or people of the same general age as yourself, you can say: \u4f60\u591a\u5927\u4e86\uff1f<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: \u4f60\u591a\u5927\u4e86\uff1f(ní du\u014d dà le?)<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie: Yes. As I said before\u591a, is an adverb, meaning how many? \u591a\u5927together means how old. \u4f60\u591a\u5927\u4e86\uff1f(ní du\u014d dà le?)<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>***************Sentences in the Week<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>This week we learned how to say the days during a week in Chinese. The numbers from 1 to 6 follow“\u661f\u671f” and are employed to express Mo<\/em>nday to Saturday. Monday, \u661f\u671f\u4e00(x\u012bngq\u012b y\u012b). Sunday, \u661f\u671f\u65e5or\u661f\u671f\u5929.  Also we learned how to ask one’s age in Chinese\u4f60\u51e0\u5c81\u4e86\uff1f \u60a8\u591a\u5927\u4e86\uff1f<\/span>
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<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie:  One more thing there is another courteous way of asking a senior person’s age.  You can say: \u60a8\u591a\u5927\u4e86\uff1f<\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Cam: \u60a8\u591a\u5927\u4e86\uff1f(nín du\u014d dà le?) We’ve learned \u60a8. It’s the polite form of \u4f60, right? <\/span><\/span>
<\/em>portant; float: none;”>Yajie:  Right!
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