Learn Chinese for Free - Lesson 27
Today's Chinese character:
来
Today, with the Chinese verb "come", we'll review two ways of asking questions.
Before going on, please try to translate the following simple dialogue using the two ways to ask questions that you've studied in lesson 16 and lesson 17:
- "Do you come?"
- "Yes, I do."
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Characters' Essentials
Description and Examples
Dialogue 13
A:
你来吗？
B:
我来。
A:
你的老师来不来？
B:
他也来。
ATTENTION: This is wrong! 你来不来吗？ You cannot use both 吗 and the affirmative-negative structure! |
Exercise
Review lesson 16 and lesson 17, and translate these questions using 吗 or the affirmative-negative question.
Are you technician?
Do you love her?
Don't you love her?
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Characters' Details
Chinese Character 55 of 1000
appearance score: # 15
frequency: 0.5578535%
Character 
来
Animation
Strokes
7
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Come, arrive; crop up, take place, come up; derive, come from |
| - | (Used to indicate the doing of something - replaces a verb) |
| - | (Used with 得 or 不 to indicate possibility) |
| - | (Used before a verb to indicate that one is about to do something) |
| - | (Used after a verb or verbal phrase to indicate what one has come for) |
| - | (Used between a verbal phrase or prepositional construction and a verb or verbal phrase, where the verb or verbal phrase indicates the purpose of the action expressed by the verbal phrase or prepositional construction) |
| - | Future, coming, next |
| - | Ever since |
| - | About (used after numerals) |
| - | (Used to indicate a past happening) |
| - | (Used after numerals to enumerate reasons) |
| - | (Used in poems and songs for balance or euphony) |
| - | (Used after a verb as a complement to indicate moving forward in the direction of the speaker) |
| - | (Used after a verb to indicate the result) |
| - | (A surname) |
This character has a different traditional version.
Meet me on Skype?
I will contact you ASAP!
