In this video lesson we'll learn how to say I know how to do something in Chinese. We'll get to know different types of Verbs in Chinese and practice answering questions with Yes or No in Chinese.
STATEMENT - In Chinese, huì 会 means "to know how to do something after learning it". It is sometimes translated as "can". We can use it to make sentences like this:
QUESTION - To ask questions with 会, we can use the yes/no Question Particle 吗 and use this structure:
ANSWER - For the questions above, answering with Yes or No in Chinese, we can say full sentences:
Or with short versions:
STATEMENT - The Verb 会 can be directly followed by a Noun or Noun Phrase as well, meaning, "to know the skill of something":
QUESTION - We can also use the Yes/No Question Particle 吗.
ANSWER - For the questions above, answering with Yes or No in Chinese, we can say full sentences:
Or with short versions:
There are different types of Verbs in Chinese, each type suggests different meaning or function a little bit differently.
Dynamic Verbs suggest actions - something that we can do.
Stative Verbs suggest a status or a condition, it’s usually related to people’s feelings or physical status.
Modal Verbs suggest a judgement: willingness, condition, permission, value ability or possibility.
Relation Verbs suggests relationships, it connects and relates the Subject and the Object together.
When answering questions with yes or no in Chinese, there are always two different ways: the full sentences or the short version. Here we'll talk about the short version.
In Chinese the direct translation for yes is shì 是, for no is bù 不. But we don't usually use them when giving answers. For questions where the Predicate is a Verb (Phrase), a lot of the times we can answer in this way:
And when the question has an Adjective (Phrase) as the predicate, a lot of the times we can answer in this way: