{"id":10732,"date":"2019-11-16T04:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T04:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/lesson-044-revision-of-the-usages-of-quot-de-quot\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T04:39:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T04:39:01","slug":"lesson-044-revision-of-the-usages-of-quot-de-quot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/lesson-044-revision-of-the-usages-of-quot-de-quot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 044 Revision of the Usages of "De""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yajie: Dajia hao. I’m Yajie here with Cam, and welcome to Chinese Studio.  We focused all week on the Chinese character de, and learned a lot.  So we should probably review.
Cam: Good idea.I have done my best to try and remember everything, so a review is probably good.
Yajie: Now let’s check sentences in the week.<\/p>\n

********** Sentences in the week<\/strong>
This week we’ve learned some useful ex<\/em>pressions that signalize the characteristic and its relatio<\/em>nship and with another one. For instance, \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba, the Chinese\uff1b\u7ea2\u82f9\u679c, red apple; \u6211\u7684\uff0cmine. \u8c01\u7684, whose. \u8bf7\u95ee\uff0c\u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\u7684\u4e66\uff1f May I ask, whose book is this?
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Yajie: \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba, the Chinese people.
Cam: \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba(Zho<\/em>ngguo ren).
Yajie: \u4e2d\u56fd, China.
Cam: \u4e2d\u56fd, zhóngguó, China. And \u4eba, rén, means person, or people.
Yajie: Yes. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba, the Chinese people.
Cam: \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba(Zho<\/em>ngguo ren). This is composed of two words, the first one defines the second.
Yajie: Some more examples like: 203 \u623f\u95f4, room 203.
Cam: 203 \u623f\u95f4 (èr líng s\u0101n fángji\u0101n). I know 2 means two; 0, zero; 3, three.
Yajie: and \u623f\u95f4, room.
Cam: \u623f\u95f4(fángji\u0101n).
Yajie: Next , \u7ea2\u82f9\u679c, red apple.
Cam: \u7ea2\u82f9\u679c (hong pingguo).
Yajie: \u7ea2, h-o-n-g, the second tone, meaning red.
Cam: \u7ea2 (hong).
Yajie: \u82f9\u679c(pingguo), apple.
Cam: \u82f9\u679c(pingguo).
Yajie: \u7ea2\u82f9\u679c, red apple.
Cam: \u7ea2\u82f9\u679c (hóng pínggu\u01d2).<\/p>\n

Co<\/em>nversations (1)<\/p>\n

Yajie: In Chinese, father  is\u7238\u7238 (bàba).
Cam: Yes. It’s\u7238\u7238 (bàba).
Yajie: And in the last lesson we said the Chinese character \u7684signalizes the relatio<\/em>nship that one belo<\/em>ngs to another.  
Cam: Yes. I remember the phrases\u6211\u7684\uff0cmine. And \u6211\u7684\u4e66, my book. The book is mine and it belo<\/em>ngs to me.
Yajie: Yes. Then how do you say “my father” in Chinese?
Cam: I think it’s \u6211\u7684\u7238\u7238.
Yajie: Right. It is \u6211\u7684\u7238\u7238, my father. Some phrases, like this one, don’t need the Chinese character “de”.People usually say \u6211\u7238\u7238 rather than \u6211\u7684\u7238\u7238.
Cam: Ok. Seems easier.
Yajie: \u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\uff1f(zhe shi shui) Who is this?
Cam: \u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\uff1f(zhe shi shui)
Yajie: Also you may say\u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\uff1f(zhe shi shéi).
Cam: \u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\uff1f(zhe shi shéi).
Yajie: \u8fd9means this. z-h-e, the fourth tone.
Cam: \u8fd9(zhè).
Yajie: \u662f, s-h-i, the fourth tone, meaning “is”.
Cam: \u662f (shì).\u3000
Yajie: \u8c01, shei, the second tone.
Cam: \u8c01 (shéi).
Yajie: \u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\uff1f(zhe shi shei) Who is this?
Cam: \u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\uff1f(zhè shì shéi)<\/p>\n

Co<\/em>nversations (2)<\/p>\n

Yajie: \u6211\u7684\u4e66, my book.
Cam: \u6211\u7684\u4e66(wo de shu).
Yajie: \u4e66, s-h-u, the first tone, book.
Cam: \u4e66 (shu).
Yajie: \u6211\u7684\u4e66, my book.
Cam: \u6211\u7684\u4e66(w\u01d2 de sh\u016b).
Yajie: And the Chinese for “whose is this” is “\u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\u7684”?
Cam: \u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\u7684 (zhè shì shei de)? Whose is this?<\/p>\n

Co<\/em>nversations (3)<\/p>\n

********** Sentences in the week
\u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba, the Chinese people\uff1b\u7ea2\u82f9\u679c, red apple; \u6211\u7684\uff0cmine. \u8c01\u7684, whose. \u8bf7\u95ee\uff0c\u8fd9\u662f\u8c01\u7684\u4e66\uff1f May I ask whose book is this?<\/div>\n