Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Birthday and Age

Link to PPT
Sample essay for your project (you should include at least: your family size, family members, age and birthday informations):

wǒ jiào David   .       wǒ  de jiā yǒu shì      rén,   yǒu   ba,    ma,      ye ,
我叫David。我的家有十一个人, 爸爸, 妈妈, 爷爷,
nǎi  nai ,     liǎng   jiě  jie ,                  ge ,                  di      liǎng   mèi mei
奶奶个姐姐, 一个哥哥, 一个弟弟 和 两妹妹。我有一只狗和一只猫。


我十四岁, 我的生日是七月十四号。我的爸爸三十八岁,他的生日是九月十八号。 我的妈妈三十五岁, 她的生日是一月八号。。。


Sentence structures and grammar points:

* is the possessive particle.( ’s in English)  ex. is I, 我的 means “my” or “mine”,  David’s cat is translated as David 的猫”
* could mean “have, has, had”  or “there is, there are, there was or there were” ( There is no tense in Chinese. )
* Generally, Chinese word order is subject +verb +object (SVO). That applies to questions as well as statement. Ex 你的家(S) 有(V 几个人(O)?

Household size:
Question: 你的家有几个人? Literally your family has how many people”)
Answer:我的家有三个人。(My family has 3 people. Once again, answer follows the EXACT SAME word order as the question in Chinese. You replace the question word with the answer)

Family member:
Question: 你的家有 Literally your family has who,  could be omitted so you could say 你家有as well
Answer:   我的家有爸爸, 妈妈和我 again you replace question word with the answer family member.

Pet
Question:你有什么物?(Literally “you have what pet?”)
Answer:      我有一只狗, 一只猫和两条。(same as in English when listing you need a conjunction and 和)

Age
Question:  ?(Literally “you how many years old?”
Answer 我十四岁。(Literally I 14 years old

Birthday:
Question:你的生日是几月几号?(Literally,your birthday is what month what day?”)
Answer  我的生日是七月八号

New words:
suì:  -years old

生日 sheng rì : birthday

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