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2 Simplified Chinese
2 Traditional Chinese
2 Pinyin
2 English
3 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences
4 Grammar
5 Cultural Insight
# 17
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SIMPLIFIED CHINESE
1. 你为什么迟到?
2. 我没赶上火车。
3. 你为什么那么早走?
4. 为了赶火车。
TRADITIONAL CHINESE
1. 你為甚麼遲到?
2. 我沒趕上火車。
3. 你為甚麼那麼早走?
4. 為了趕火車。
PINYIN
1. nǐ wèishénme chídào ?
ENGLISH
CONT'D OVER
CHI NES ECLAS S 101.COM 3-MI NUT E CHI NES E S 1 #17 - WHY? 2
1. Why are you late?
VOCABULARY
你 你 nǐ you pronoun
我 我 wǒ I pronoun
那么 nàme so adverb
SAMPLE SENTENCES
CHI NES ECLAS S 101.COM 3-MI NUT E CHI NES E S 1 #17 - WHY? 3
是你吗? 我叫王林。
Shì nǐ ma? Wǒ jiào Wáng Lín.
你吃早饭了吗?
nǐ chī zǎo fàn le ma ?
GRAMMAR
In this lesson you will learn how to ask and answer why.
Word 1 你 nǐ you
Wǒ méi
我没赶上火 gǎ nshàng I missed the
Phrase 2 formal
车。 huǒchē . train.
Word 1 我 wǒ I
CHI NES ECLAS S 101.COM 3-MI NUT E CHI NES E S 1 #17 - WHY? 4
nǐ wèishénme Why do you
Phrase 3 你为什么那 nàme zǎ o leave so
formal
么早走 ? zǒu ? early?
Word 1 你 nǐ you
Word 3 那么 nàme so
CULTURAL INSIGHT
Because we’ve learned how to say both “why” and “not” in Chinese, you might think you know
how to say “Why not?” as well, right? Well, technically it can be Wèishénme bù? But that’s
actually not natural Chinese. Although it makes sense, people don’t usually say it, and will
say something different depending on the situation. So just remember to be careful about
using it!
CHI NES ECLAS S 101.COM 3-MI NUT E CHI NES E S 1 #17 - WHY? 5