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我们今天去吃饺子, 好吗? Let's go eat dumplings today, OK?
Four soft-confirmation question forms — append to a proposal to invite agreement: 好吗 (widest), 可以吗 (permission-flavoured), 行吗 (colloquial / casual), 怎么样 (opinion-asking). Also introduces the V+到 result-complement family (找到 / 看到 / 听到 / 见到).
Hội thoại
我们今天去吃饺子, 好吗? — Let's go eat dumplings today, OK?
- 张天 周雨, 我们今天去吃饺子, 好吗? Zhou Yu, let's go eat dumplings today, OK?
- 周雨 好! 我也想吃. 你找到那家了吗? Yes! I want some too. Did you find that place?
- 张天 找到了. 在地铁站旁边. Found it. Right next to the subway station.
- 周雨 那很近. 我们坐地铁过去, 怎么样? Then it's close. Let's take the subway over — what do you think?
- 张天 好, 出发! Great, let's go!
Hội thoại
不好意思, 我不行 — Sorry, I can't
- 大卫 张天, 你帮我找到那家店, 可以吗? Zhang Tian, can you help me find that place?
- 张天 不好意思, 我今天不行. Sorry, I can't today.
- 大卫 是吗? 那明天呢? Really? How about tomorrow?
- 张天 明天也不一定. 我不太有时间. Tomorrow's also not for sure. I don't really have time.
- 大卫 好, 不用. 我自己找. OK, no need. I'll find it myself.
Hội thoại
我们决定吧 — Let's decide
- 周雨 高文, 我们今天去那家店, 行吗? Gao Wen, we'll go to that place today — that work?
- 高文 可以. 我听到那家很不错. OK. I heard that place is pretty good.
- 周雨 我也见到大卫了, 他也想去. I ran into David too — he also wants to go.
- 高文 那我们决定吧. 三个人一起去. Then let's decide. The three of us go together.
- 周雨 好. 我们出发! Great. Off we go!
Từ vựng
| 汉字 | Pinyin | Từ loại | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|---|
| 行 | xíng | adj./v. | OK; it works (alternation with 好 / 可以 in soft-confirmation) |
| 不行 | bùxíng | adj. | not OK; can't (negative pair of 行) |
| 不好意思 | bù hǎo yìsi | exp. | sorry; excuse me — soft refusal / apology |
| 不一定 | bùyídìng | adv. | not necessarily; not for sure |
| 不太 | bùtài | adv. | not very (often softens an adjective in a negative direction) |
| 不用 | bùyòng | adv. | no need; don't bother |
| 决定 | juédìng | v./n. | decide; decision |
| 找到 | zhǎo//dào | v. | find — V+到 result complement (formal lesson Bk2) |
| 看到 | kàn//dào | v. | see; catch sight of — V+到 result complement |
| 听到 | tīng//dào | v. | hear — V+到 result complement |
| 见到 | jiàn//dào | v. | meet; encounter — V+到 result complement |
Chữ mới
| 汉字 | Pinyin | Từ loại | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|---|
| 意 | yì | idea; intention (in 故意; closes the 心 cluster) 不好意思 bù hǎo yìsi — sorry; excuse me — soft refusal / apology故意 gùyì — on purpose; deliberately注意 zhùyì — pay attention; be careful | |
| 思 | sī | think; thought (in 意思) 不好意思 bù hǎo yìsi — sorry; excuse me — soft refusal / apology有意思 yǒu yìsi — interesting没意思 méi yìsi — not interesting; boring (pair with 有意思) | |
| 可 | kě | (in 可能 = possibly; possibility) 可能 kěnéng — possibly; possibility可能性 kěnéngxìng — possibility宁可 nìngkě — would rather | |
| 以 | yǐ | with; use (Level 1 revisit; in 以前 / 以后) 以前 yǐqián — before; in the past以后 yǐhòu — after; in the future所以 suǒyǐ — so; therefore | |
| 决 | jué | decide; resolutely (in 决定) 决定 juédìng — decide; decision |
Chữ Hán — viết & nhận biết
xíng / háng OK / can (xíng — chapter sense); a row / firm (háng, deferred) Viết
jué decide; resolutely (in 决定) Viết
Phono-semantic compound: 冫 (ice / water radical) + 夬 (guài, phonetic). Original sense: "to break through / cut" — like splitting water. Modern senses: "decide / resolutely" — 决定 (decide), 决心 (determination), 决不 (definitely not). Pairs with 定 in 决定.
dìng set; settled (in 决定, 一定) Viết
Phono-semantic compound: 宀 (roof radical, "settled / secure") + 正 (zhèng, simplified to 疋). Original sense: "fixed / settled / at peace at home". Modern uses: 决定 (decide — "settle a choice"), 一定 (definitely — "fixed for sure"), 定时 (set time). The 宀 radical clusters 定 with 容 / 安 (ch5) — the "indoor / settled" group.
yòng use; need (Level 1 revisit; here as 不用 = "no need") Viết
zhǎo look for; find Nhận biết
dào arrive (revisit ch8); also: V+到 result complement (this chapter) Nhận biết
kàn look; see (Level 1 revisit; in 看到) Nhận biết
tīng listen; hear (Level 1 revisit; in 听到) Nhận biết
jiàn see; meet (Level 1 revisit; in 见到, 见面) Nhận biết
bù not (Level 1 revisit; chapter heavy in 不 compounds: 不行 / 不一定 / 不太 / 不用 / 不好意思) Nhận biết
tài too; very (Level 1 revisit; in 不太) Nhận biết
Ngữ pháp
好吗 / 可以吗 / 行吗 / 怎么样 — soft-confirmation questions 好吗 / 可以吗 / 行吗 / 怎么样 — soft-confirmation question tags
把"…, 好吗 / 可以吗 / 行吗 / 怎么样?"放在提议或者陈述的后面, 听起来像是请对方同意——比直接问"你同意吗?"温和。四个的语气有差别: (1) 好吗——最普通, 在朋友间常用。(2) 可以吗——带"得到允许"的意思。(3) 行吗——口语化, 有时显得急。(4) 怎么样——征求看法, 不只是 yes/no。注意: 前三个本身已经包含"吗", 不要再加"吗"; "怎么样"本身是疑问, 也不要加"吗".
Append "…, 好吗 / 可以吗 / 行吗 / 怎么样?" to a proposal or statement to invite the other person's agreement — softer than "你同意吗?" ("do you agree?"). The four forms differ in register: (1) 好吗 — neutral, friend-to-friend default. (2) 可以吗 — has a "may I have permission?" feel. (3) 行吗 — colloquial, sometimes mildly impatient. (4) 怎么样 — opinion-asking, not just yes/no — invites the other person to weigh in. CRITICAL: the first three already contain 吗 — don't add another 吗. 怎么样 is itself interrogative — also don't add 吗.
- 我们今天去吃饺子, 好吗? Wǒmen jīntiān qù chī jiǎozi, hǎo ma? Let's go eat dumplings today, OK?
- 你帮我找到那家, 可以吗? Nǐ bāng wǒ zhǎo dào nà jiā, kěyǐ ma? Can you help me find that place?
- 我们坐地铁, 行吗? Wǒmen zuò dìtiě, xíng ma? We'll take the subway — that work?
- 我们去那家店, 怎么样? Wǒmen qù nà jiā diàn, zěnmeyàng? Let's go to that place — what do you think?
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