Lesson:16 安妮 有 一 支 笔。
Anne has a pen.
安妮 有 一 支 笔,大卫 有 三 个 本子。他们 没有 词典,山本 有 两 本 词典。我 有 一 张 地图,安妮 也 有 一 张 地图。这 不是 我 的 地图,是 安妮 的 地图。
Anne has a pen, David has three notebooks. They don't have Dictionaries, shanben has two dictionaries. I have a map, Anne has a map, too. This is not my map, It's a map of Anne.
Chinese Character and Word.
地 /dì/ 图 /tú/ 笔 /bǐ/ 支 /zhī/ 张 /zhāng/ 子 /zǐ/ 山本 /shān běn/ 地图 /dì tú/ 本子 /běn zǐ/
Chinese Grammars.
1: Measure Words
(1): Measure words are used between the numerals and nouns.
num. + m. + n.
一 本 书 (A Book)
两 张 纸 (Two sheets of paper)
三 支 笔 (Three pens)
Wrong usage: (一书,两纸,三笔)
(2): Nouns usually have special measure words that match them.
本:(used for book of various kinds) like “一本书,一本词典”
张:(used for sth. with a surface) like “一张纸,一张地图,一张照片”
支:(used for long, thin and inflexible objects) like “一支笔,一支蜡烛,一支枪”
个:(used before nouns without special measure words of their own) like “一个本子,一个人,一个朋友”
(3): “两” is usually used before measure words, instead of “二”.
两个人,两本书
Wrong usage: (二个人,二本书)
2: One to ten in Chinese
一,二,三,四,五,六,七,八,九,十
3: Numbers 1 - 100
Read after me.
11(十一),12(十二),13(十三),14(十四),15(十五),16(十六),.....
20(二十),21(二十一),22(二十二),23(二十三),24(二十四),25(二十五),.....
30(三十),31(三十一),32(三十二),33(三十三),....,40(四十),41(四十一)
42(四十二),.....,100(一百)
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