Lesson 2 第二课: Essential Daily Expressions
Lesson 2 第二课: Essential Daily Expressions
goodbye
Nǐ hǎo ma?
你好吗?
I am fine.
xièxie
谢谢
búkèqi
Thank you
不客气
never mind
zǎo’ān wǔ’ān
早安 午安
good morning good afternoon
wǎn’ān
晚安
good night
Part One
How do you do? nǐ hǎo 你好
goodbye zàijiàn 再见
How are you? nǐ hǎo ma? 你好吗?
I am fine wǒ hěn hǎo 我很好
Thank you xièxie 谢谢
You are welcome búkèqi 不客气
never mind méiguānxi 没关系
good morning zǎo’ān 早安
good afternoon wǔ’ān 午安
good night wǎn’ān 晚安
Exercise 1 Liànxí yī 练习一
A. Match the correct answer.
nǐ nǐmen
你 你们
tā
他/她
tāmen
他们
xiānsheng xiǎojiě
先生 MR + MS 小姐
Xiǎolì
小力
Lín xiānsheng nǐ hǎo
林先生 你 好
Lín xiǎojiě
Lín Xiǎolì 林小姐
林 小力
Lín lǎoshī
林老师
Personal Pronouns 人称代词
I, me wǒ 我 we, us wǒmen 我们
Note:
1. You can expresses to a particular person, with this structure: “a person name, the greeting
phrase”.
3. For respect, “Surname + job position” is the most proper form of address a person (e.g. Lín
lǎoshī). We seldom address a person directly by his/her personal name.
Hello! nǐ hǎo 你好!
Hello! (polite form) nín hǎo 您好!
Hello to you! (plural) nǐmen hǎo 你们好!
Thank you! xièxie nǐ 谢谢你!
Thank you! (polite form) xièxie nín 谢谢您!
Thank you to you! (plural) xièxie nǐmen 谢谢你们!
Note:
1. “nín hǎo” is the polite form of greeting, it used to indicate respect to one’s elders and betters.
It’s not used in the plural.
2.You can expresses to more than one person, with adding “men” (plural particle) after single
personal pronoun. (e.g. nǐ hǎo → nǐmen hǎo)
Exercise 2 Liànxí èr 练习二
Note:
1. When the same question is put to two or more people consecutively, “people name+‘ne’”
usually used to replace the question which asked to the first person.
(e.g. nǐ hɑ̌o mɑ?→ nǐ ne?)
Zàijiàn
再见