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The Complete Guide
to HSK I
All the HSK I vocabulary included,
with 11 quizzes and 150 questions!
by Eva Dovc
Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................................6
What is an HSK test? .....................................................................................6
Listening comprehension ...............................................................................6
Reading comprehension .................................................................................7
The score ........................................................................................................7
Should you take an HSK test? ........................................................................7
Why study with us? .........................................................................................8
Pinyin ......................................................................................9
Numbers ......................................................................................................11
What You Need to Know .............................................................................11
Quiz I ....................................................................................12
Quiz I (key) ............................................................................14
A Sentence (or Two) ..............................................................16
What You Need to Know .............................................................................16
Quiz II ...................................................................................18
Quiz II (key) ...........................................................................19
Objects ..................................................................................20
What You Need to Know .............................................................................21
Quiz III ................................................................................23
Quiz III (key) .........................................................................25
People ....................................................................................27
What You Need to Know .............................................................................28
Quiz IV ................................................................................30
Quiz IV (key) .........................................................................32
Adjectives ..............................................................................34
What You Need to Know .............................................................................35
Quiz V ...................................................................................38
Quiz V (key) ..........................................................................41
Locations ...............................................................................44
What You Need to Know .............................................................................45
Quiz VI .................................................................................47
Quiz VI (key) .........................................................................50
Verbs I ...................................................................................53
What You Need to Know .............................................................................54
Quiz VII ................................................................................56
Quiz VII (key) ........................................................................59
Verbs II ..................................................................................62
What You Need to Know .............................................................................63
Quiz VIII ..............................................................................65
Quiz VIII (key) ......................................................................68
Time and Date ......................................................................71
What You Need to Know .............................................................................72
Quiz IX .................................................................................74
Quiz IX (key) .........................................................................77
People II ................................................................................80
What You Need to Know .............................................................................80
Quiz X ...................................................................................82
Quiz X (with answers) ...........................................................86
Phrases ...................................................................................90
What You Need to Know .............................................................................91
Quiz XI .................................................................................92
Quiz XI (key) .........................................................................97
HSK I Vocabulary List ........................................................102
For more information ..........................................................109
To V.B.,
for bringing salsa into my life.
Copyright © 2014 Eva Dovc All rights reserved.
Introduction
What is an HSK test?
HSK stands for (Hànyǔ shuǐpíng kǎoshì), a Chinese proficiency test for learners
of Chinese as a foreign language. HSK has six levels in total, ranging from beginner to advanced.
This book is intended for beginner learners of Chinese, those who are intending to take an HSK
test of level I.
Level I HSK-takers are able to demonstrate basic knowledge of everyday, conversational
Chinese. HSK I is intended for students who have studied Chinese for half an academic year
with 2-3 hours of Chinese weekly, or the equivalent of a two-month intensive course.
To successfully sit an HSK I, the students are expected to have mastered 150 commonly used
words (we will include the entire list at the end of the manual) and basic grammar patterns. At
this stage the students are not expected to know calligraphy and won’t be required to write down
characters; the main emphasis is on word use and basic grammar. The entire HSK I is thus
written in Pinyin.
The test itself is made up of two parts: listening and reading comprehension. Each of these
sections is further divided into 4 parts with 40 questions in total. It takes around 35 minutes to
complete the entire test (it actually takes 40 minutes, since 5 minutes are used at the beginning for
administrative purposes and during the course of the test for filling in the answers).
Listening comprehension
As stated, listening comprehension is made up of four parts, each part consisting of five
questions.
In the first part, the students are provided with a picture and a phrase to listen to in a recording.
Upon hearing the recording twice, the students have to answer the true or false statement. You
don’t have to write down anything, just put down a tick for ‘true’ or X for ‘false’.
In the second part the students are provided with a sentence and three pictures. Upon hearing
the recording twice, the students have to choose the corresponding picture by ticking the
appropriate letter.
Part III features a dialogue and several pictures. The students are required to choose the
corresponding picture upon hearing the recording twice.
In the last part (IV), in the recording the students will listen to a person making a statement.
Another person will then ask questions about this statement and provide three possible answers.
Upon hearing the recording twice, the students are required to choose the correct answer based
on what they hear.
Reading comprehension
Reading comprehension consists of 4 parts, with 5 questions in each of them.
In questions 1-5 the test takers will be given a picture and a phrase. They will then have to decide
whether the phrase and the picture are consistent with each other, that is, if the Pinyin is correct
for the picture.
In part II, the test will provide a sentence and several pictures. The student will have to choose
the picture that corresponds to the sentence provided.
In part III the student will be given five questions and five answers. The objective is to correctly
match the questions with the appropriate answer.
In the last part, the exam will have a number of sentences, each of them with a word missing.
The student must choose the correct answer from the options provided.
All items are shown in Pinyin, there is absolutely no need to write down or even recognise
characters. However, if you would want to pursue further Chinese studies, you would need to
learn characters. HSK IV and up are exclusively in characters, and most students find it hard to
make the change between Pinyin written exams and the ones in characters because they didn’t
get acquainted with the characters early enough in their studies.
The score
The highest score is 200 (100 from each section). The test takers must score at least 120 to pass
the test.
Eva and
Team M2E
Chapter 1
In this chapter you’ll learn about Chinese pronunciation and numbers in Chinese.
Pinyin
By the end of this section you will:
1. learn about the four tones in Pinyin
2. learn what Pinyin is and how to use it
1) The first tone is a sustained sound, slightly above your speaking pitch. If you’ve ever studied
music or watched The Sound of Music you will know about DO-RE-MI. That’s how the first
tone in Chinese sounds. In writing, the first tone is symbolized by a short horizontal mark above
the vowel. Look at the syllable ma in the first tone: mā (mā means ‘mother’ in Chinese).
2) The second tone is a high, rising pitch tone, and sounds kind of like asking a question.
Remember playing Hide and Seek when you were a kid? The way you’d count the numbers 1, 2,
3…, it would actually sound more like 1? 2? 3? That rising intonation is the second tone in
Chinese and in writing it’s symbolized by an ascending mark above the vowel: má (má means
‘hemp’).
3) The third tone is a low, dipping tone. Imagine a friend of yours telling you this incredible
story that you have a really hard time believing it. After your friend finishes the narration, you
reply with an incredulous: ‘Really?’. That’s the third tone in Mandarin Chinese and in writing it
has a small letter -V placed above the vowel: mǎ (mǎ means ‘horse’).
4) The fourth tone is a high to low tone, a descending tone that sounds like giving an order. If
you are a dog owner, imagine telling your dog to ‘sit’. The sudden, almost angry sounding
lowering of your voice is the fourth tone in Chinese. To denote the forth tone, a descending
accent is placed above the vowel, the letter -A in this case: mà (mà means ‘to scold’).
5) There is also the fifth, neutral tone which is pronounced soft and short and has no tone
mark.
There are a 409 syllables in Pinyin excluding the different tones that each syllable can have. What
this means is that Chinese has a final list of words (pronunciation-wise), and once you’ve
mastered them, you’re done. That is, once you’ve mastered the syllables and pronouncing them
in different tones you can merrily tackle any word or sentence in Chinese.
On the downside, since the number of syllables in Mandarin is final, this also means that the
same sound can have different meanings when pronounced in different tones. In other words,
even though there is a finite number of syllables, the number of characters that they represent is
not quite so final. The result is that many characters are pronounced the same. And to make
things even more interesting, some syllables also sound very similar, and can have similar
meanings: take numbers four and ten, for example. Number four is pronounced sì, and ten as shí.
Numbers
yī one
èr two
sān three
sì four
wǔ five
liù six
qī seven
bā eight
jiǔ nine
líng zero
• ‘Zero’ is sometimes written as , especially in the date format. For example: is the
year 1900.
A)
B)
C)
2. ‘Ninety-two’ is:
A)
B)
C)
3. ‘Fifty-seven’ is:
A)
B)
C)
4. ‘Eighty’ is:
A)
B)
C)
5. ‘Forty-four’ is:
A)
B)
C)
6. - =
A)
B)
C)
7. + =
A)
B)
C)
8. + - =
A)
B)
C)
9. …?
A)
B)
C)
10.
A)
B)
C)
Quiz I (key)
1. ‘Fifty-six’ is:
A) (shíliù wǔ)
B) (liùshíwǔ)
C) (wǔshíliù)
2. ‘Ninety-two’ is:
A) (bāshí'èr)
B) (shíbā jiǔ)
C) (jiǔshí'èr)
3. ‘Fifty-seven’ is:
A) (wǔshíqī)
B) (qīshíwǔ)
C) (shíwǔ qī)
4. ‘Eighty’ is:
A) (bāshí)
B) (shíbā)
C) (bā líng)
5. ‘Forty-four’ is:
A) (shísì shí)
B) (sìshíyī)
C) (sìshísì)
6. (qīshíwǔ) - (wǔshíyī) =
A) (èrshísì)
B) (sānshísì)
C) (shísì)
7. (shíbā) + (shíjiǔ) =
A) (sānshíwǔ)
B) (sānshíqī)
C) (sānshísì)
A) (shíjiǔ)
B) (èrshí)
C) (èrshíyī)
A) (èrshí) (èrshí'èr)
B) (shíjiǔ) (èrshí)
C) (èrshíyī) (èrshísì)
A) (wǔshí'èr) (sìshíbā)
B) (sìshíjiǔ) (sìshíyī)
C) (wǔshíyī) (sìshíqī)
Chapter 2
In this chapter you’ll learn how to form sentences in Chinese.
wǒ I; me
nǐ you
hǎo good
ma question particle
ne question particle
bù no; not
hěn very
• and are both question particles, that is, we use them in Chinese to form questions. is
a general question word and the most common (and easiest) way of questions in Chinese, for
example: means ‘How are you?’. You can form a question by simply adding to
the end of the statement. is a question particle used for forming follow-up questions. In
this example we had the question ‘How are you’, answered with ‘I’m very well’. Speaker B
then continued to say: ‘And you’?
• means ‘no’ or ‘not’ and can be placed either in front of adjectives (like in this case) or
verbs.
• Adjectives, don’t like to be left alone in Chinese and they tend to come with another word,
like or . This has to do with the sense of rhythm in Chinese language, which prefers two
or four syllables instead of one or three.
A) /
B)
C)
2.
_?
A)
B)
C)
Quiz II (key)
1. (Lǐ) (Nǐ hǎo!) Hi!
Objects
By the end of this section you will:
1. learn how to use countable objects with measure words
yī ge píngguǒ an apple
yī ge cài a dish
zhè this
nà that
shì am/is/are
shénme what
• To negate verbs in Chinese you need to put in front of the verb. The only exception to
this rule is the verb . is always negated with to get .
• Chinese nouns are preceded by measure words especially when these nouns are being
counted. The structure is as follows: number + measure word + noun, for example:
. When using number ‘one’, as in , the translation can either be ‘one
book’ or simply ‘a book’.
• is the most common measure word used for people and things. It is also the universal
measure word, which means that if you can’t think of the appropriate measure word, you can
always use . Thus the phrase wouldn’t not be entirely correct, but it would be
passable. We recommend that you learn the appropriate measure word for each noun that we
are going to study and treat them as a single unit.
• When number two is followed by a measure word (words like , , ), it changes into
which means ‘two’ or ‘a couple’. Thus this is correct: (two books), (two
dishes), (two cups).
• When a noun is uncountable, for example with words like (clothes) or (fruit), we
can use the measure word which means ‘some’: (these clothes), (those
pieces of fruit).
Coke: kělè
Coffee: kāfēi
Soda: súdá
Whiskey: wèishìjì
Quiz III
1. _
A)
B)
C)
2. _
A)
B)
C)
3. _
A)
B)
C)
4. _
A)
B)
C)
5. _
A)
B)
C)
6. ___
A)
B)
C)
7. _
A)
B)
C)
8. _
A)
B)
C)
9. _
A)
B)
C)
10. _
A)
B)
C)
Quiz III (key)
1. _ (Nà shì yī _ shū).
A) (ge)
B) (běn)
C) (zi)
A) (yīfu)
B) (gǒu)
C) (píngguǒ)
A) (gǒu)
B) (shuǐguǒ)
C) (shénme)
A) (èr)
B) (xiē)
C) (liǎng)
A) (wǒ)
B) (yīfu)
C) (shénme)
6. ___ (Nǐ yǒu shuǐguǒ ma? Shì, wǒ yǒu _ _ _.)
A) (liǎng ge bēizi)
B) (sān ge píngguǒ)
A) (gǒu)
B) (shū)
C) (māo)
A) (wǒ)
B) (dōngxi)
C) (yīfu)
A) (bēizi)
B) (píngguǒ)
C) (chá)
A) (jiǔ)
B) (bēizi)
C) (chá)
Chapter 4
In this chapter you’ll learn about pronouns (I, you, they etc) and other words for people.
People
By the end of this section you will:
1. learn how to use pronouns
2. learn how to say doctor, teacher and other professions in Chinese
3. learn how to ask who someone is
4. learn how to express possession (mine, yours, theirs etc)
5. learn how to ask whose something is
Character Pinyin Translation
tā she; her
tā he; him
tā it
wǒmen we; us
nǐmen you(plural)
lǎoshī a teacher
xuésheng a student
tóngxué a classmate
péngyou a friend
yīshēng a doctor
xiānsheng mister
xiǎojie miss
shéi who
de grammar particle
shéide whose
yě also
• Tones are important, but sometimes the meaning is only understood from the context. Look
at the characters for ‘he’, ‘she’ and ‘eat’, they are all pronounced with the same syllable, with
the exactly same tone. So if we hear someone saying: tā de tóngxué, we don’t know whether
we are talking about a man or a woman having a classmate.
A)
B)
C)
2. _
A)
B)
C)
3. _
A)
B)
C)
4. _
A)
B)
C)
Translate
5.
6.
A) We are friends.
B) They are people.
C) We have friends.
7.
8.
9.
A)
B)
C)
10.
A)
B)
C)
Quiz IV (key)
1. _ (Nàge rén shì shuí? Nàge rén shì wǒ de _.)
A) (píngguǒ)
B) (péngyou)
C) (nǐmen)
A) (wèi)
B) (běn)
C) (zhī)
A) (wǒ de tóngxué)
B) (wǒ de dōngxi)
C) (yīshēng)
A) (bù)
B) (shì)
C) (hǎo)
Translate
A) We are friends.
B) They are people.
C) We have friends.
A) (Wǒ bù shì.)
B) (Wǒ yě shì. )
Adjectives
By the end of this chapter you will:
1. learn how to use adjectives in Chinese
2. be able to use the structure ‘too + adjective’
3. be able to talk about the weather
4. be able to ask or tell how much something costs
5. be able to ask about someone’s age
Character Pinyin Translation
dà big
xiǎo small
lěng cold
rè hot
máng busy
gāo tall
piàoliang pretty
tiānqì weather
zěnmeyàng how
duō many
shǎo few
jǐ how many
qián money
bǎi hundred
• and are both used to mean ‘how much’, ‘how many’. The difference is that is
usually used with numbers less than 10 and is used with quantities of more than 10.
That’s why when asking about the price we tend to use Meaning, ‘how much
money’ - because we usually anticipate that the price will be more than 10 . If, on the other
hand, we see a friend carrying a load of books, you don’t know how many, but most probably
not more than ten, you would ask: ? (how many books do you have?).
• When asking about someone’s age, we use two forms: if we are asking a child (usually
someone less than 10 years old), we can ask them: If we are dealing with a person
that is older than that we can ask them like this: (lit. how big are you?).
• Going back to numbers, the word for hundred is , so ‘one hundred’ is , two hundred is
and 211 is (you have to put that for numbers between 110-119, 210-219
etc). For example: (315), (718) and (913).
• Compared to some other nations, Chinese are not so focused on discussing the weather.
Nevertheless, it is still a valid topic for some small talk and you should be able to say at least
something in the lines of (it’s too cold) or (it’s very hot).
• means ‘what’s the weather like?’. If you want to know how someone is you can
ask them
Did you know?
The bargaining game
While bargaining is certainly not one of my favourite things to do, it is definitely something unavoidable. When
buying things in China remember to play it cool and not to buy all those kitch-y things that you don’t actually
need. Even if something does spike your interest, don’t show it! Remain nonchalant and detached.
Also, if you shop in a big city such as Beijing, Guangzhou, or Shanghai, or a huge tourist destination such as the
area around the lake in Hangzhou, the prices will be quite high.
(PiánYi YīDiǎn, KěYǐ Ma?) Can you do it a little bit cheaper?
If they say no, turn around and leave. Chances are they will be calling you back into their store the moment you
walk away.
Quiz V
1. _
A)
B)
C)
2. _
A)
B)
C)
3. _
A)
B)
C)
4.
A)
B)
C)
5. _
A)
B)
C)
6. _
A)
B)
C)
Translate
7.
8.
9.
A)
B)
C)
10. ?
A)
B)
C)
11.
A)
B)
C)
12.
A)
B)
C)
Answer
13.
A)
B)
C)
14.
A)
B)
C)
15.
A)
B)
C)
Quiz V (key)
1. _ (Nǐ hěn máng, wǒ _ hěn máng.)
A) (dōu)
B) (yě)
C) (tài)
A) (rè)
B) (máng)
C) (dà)
3. _ (Nǐ _ suì?)
A) (duō)
B) (jǐ)
C) (shǎo)
A) (bù)
B) (méi)
C) (tài)
A) (duō)
B) (de)
C) (méi)
Translate
B) (shí qián)
Answer
B) (Wǒ bù hǎo.)
C) (yībǎi qián)
Chapter 6
In this chapter you’ll learn about locations and different places of business.
Locations
By the end of this chapter you will:
1. learn how to say ‘here’ and ‘there’
2. learn how to say school, hospital, restaurant and other places of business
3. learn how to say ‘above’, ‘below’, ‘in front’ and ‘behind’
4. learn how to ask where something or someone is
5. learn how to ask where someone lives
Character Pinyin Translation
xuéxiào a school
jiàoshì classroom
yīyuàn a hospital
shāngdiàn a store
fànguǎn a restaurant
jiā home
qiánmian in front
hòumian behind
ZhōngGuó China
BěiJīng Beijing
yǐzi a chair
zài be (at)
• To denote where something is we can use the verb (to be at) or the verb , which
originally means ‘to have’, but is also used to say ‘there is’ and ‘there are’. Note the difference
between these two difference sentence structures: (A cat is on top of the
table) and (There is a cat on top of the table). With the focus of the
sentence is on the object (the cat), with more focus is on the location itself (the table).
• means ‘a house’ or ‘home’ as in (my home), but it is also a measure word for many
types of businesses, for example stores, shops, restaurants and hotels: (That
shop is very good).
A)
B)
C)
2. _
A)
B)
C)
3. _
A)
B)
C)
Translate
4.
5.
7.
Answer
8.
A)
B)
C)
9.
A)
B)
C)
10.
A)
B)
C)
11. ?
A)
B)
C)
12.
A)
B)
C)
13.
A)
B)
C)
14.
A)
B)
C)
15.
A)
B)
C)
Quiz VI (key)
1. _ (Nǐ zài qiánmian, wǒ zài nǐ _.)
A) (xiàmian)
B) (shàngmian)
C) (hòumian)
A) (jǐ)
B) (hěn shǎo)
C) (hěn duō )
A) (huǒchēzhàn)
B) (shāngdiàn)
C) (jiā)
Translate
Answer
C) (Wǒ zàijiā.)
A) Tài dà le!
B) (Zài yīyuàn)
C) (Zài huǒchēzhàn)
Chapter 7
In this chapter you’ll learn about basic Chinese verbs and objects that go with them.
Verbs I
By the end of this section you will:
1. be able to say what you are doing at a particular moment
2. talk about what you like or love doing
3. be able to say what you can or cannot do
4. be able to say what you need to do and what you would like to do
Character Pinyin Translation
chī to eat
hē to drink
mǎi to buy
huì can
xuéxí to study
xǐhuan to like
ài to love
diànshì a TV
diànyǐng a movie
diànnǎo a computer
mǐfàn rice
miàn noodles
jiǎozi dumplings
• and both mean ‘can’, the difference is that refers to a physical ability and refers
to a learned ability. See the difference in the following examples:
I am able to drink alcohol
• means ‘need to’, ‘want to’ or ‘have to’ while means ‘think’, ‘plan’ or ‘would like to’ do
something. means ‘I think of you’ or simply, ‘I miss you’.
• The easiest way of forming a question is by putting the question particle at the end of a
statement, for example: (you are busy), (are you busy?). You can also aks
a question by using the structure (is it, or is it not), for instance: You
can also do this with other verbs. means ‘can’. If you want to ask ‘can you cook’ you could
say: or
A)
B)
C)
2. _
A)
B)
C)
3. _
A)
B)
C)
Translate
4.
5.
7.
A)
B)
C)
8.
A)
B)
C)
9.
A)
B)
C)
Answer
10.
A)
B)
C)
11.
A)
B)
C)
12.
A)
B)
C)
13.
D)
E)
F)
14.
A)
B)
C)
15.
A)
B)
C)
Quiz VII (key)
1. _ (Nǐ _ zuò shénme?)
A) (bù)
B) (méi)
C) (zài)
A) (zài)
B) (dōu)
C) (yǒu)
A) (gāoxìng)
B) (xǐhuan)
C) (huì)
Translate
Answer
A) (Nǐ ài wǒ ma?)
Verbs II
By the end of this chapter you will:
1. be able to use verbs such as ‘speak’, ‘listen’ and ‘write’
2. be able to introduce yourself and ask for someone’s name
3. be able to use verbs ‘go’, ‘come’ and ‘return’
4. be able to say how you go somewhere (by bus, taxi, plane etc)
Character Pinyin Translation
xiě to write
shuìjiào to sleep
lái to come
qù to go
huí to return
zì a written character
chē a car
huǒchē a train
chūzūchē a taxi
fēijī an airplane
mīngzi a name
• means ‘to open’, for example, (mén) means to open a door. The same verb also
means ‘to drive’ as in ‘to drive a car’, ‘to drive a taxi’.
• means ‘to sit’, as in ‘please, sit’, but it also mean to ride (a taxi, a bus, a car). For
example: ‘to take a taxi’, ‘to take a train’.
• To ask someone, ‘what are you doing’ you can simply say Another, more
colloquial way of asking the same question is (gàn)
• While means ‘to see’ or ‘look’, assumes the result: to actually see someone or meet
with someone. means ‘I can see you’ (the focus is on the result, I can actually see
you with my own eyes). would mean ‘I can see you’, as in ‘I can see you tomorrow,
because I have time’ (no focus on the actual result).
• In Chinese language there is no clear distinction between past, present and future events, as
in, there are no past, present and future tenses. Instead, the meaning of the sentence is either
understood from the context (with the help of ‘time words’ such as last year, yesterday, in the
afternoon), or it’s understood from the ‘help words’. These are to indicate the future and
for the past. can be translated as ‘will’, but as we know it also has other meanings,
observe this in the example sentence: . We could translate it as ‘I have to go to
US’ or ‘I need to go to US’ or ‘I will go to US’.
• is used not only to indicate past events, but also, complete events, or changes - this list is
not final, but for the sake of brevity and clarity we will stop here. See this example:
(I ate); (I went to US).
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Answer
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Quiz VIII (key)
1. _ (Wǒ _ huǒchē qù.)
A) (mǎi)
B) (zuò)
C) (kāi)
A) (lái)
B) (qù)
C) (huí)
A) (xiě)
B) (tīng)
C) (huà)
Translate
Answer
tiān a day
jīntiān today
zuótiān yesterday
míngtiān tomorrow
xīngqī a week
xīngqīyī Monday
xīngqī'èr Tuesday
xīngqīsān Wednesday
xīngqīsì Thursday
xīngqīwǔ Friday
xīngqīliù Saturday
xiàwǔ afternoon
xiànzài now
rì sun; day
yuè a month
nián a year
shíjiān time
diǎnzhōng o’clock
• The days of the week are simple in Chinese and so too are the names of the month. All you
have to do is put the number between and twelve before the word for ‘month’, for instance:
(January), (May), (November).
• The date format in Chinese follows the structure of year + month + day, for example: 2009
8 7 . To ask ‘what date is it today’ you can say:
• To indicate time in Chinese, we don’t use am and pm, instead the words and are
used, for example: (at nine in the morning) (at five in the
afternoon).
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5. 2014 12 8
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Quiz IX (key)
1. _ Tā shénme _ qù Běijīng?
A) (shíjiān)
B) (diǎnzhōng)
C) (shíhou)
A) (xǐhuan)
B) (gāoxìng)
C) (yào)
A) (shíhou)
B) (diǎn)
C) (tiān)
Translate
Answer
A) (Jīntiān xīngqīliù.)
B) Xīngqīsān.
C) (Míngtiān xiàwǔ.)
11. (Zuótiān shì xīngqījǐ?)
A) (Zuótiān wǒ bù zàijiā.)
A) (Shàng ge xīngqīwǔ.)
B) (Qùnián bāyuè.)
B) Nǐ de diànhuà duōshao?
C) Nǐ xiàwǔ qù nǎli?
Chapter 10
In this chapter you’ll learn about family titles and how to say where you are from.
People II
By the end of this chapter you will:
1. be able to use family titles
2. be able to say where you are from
3. review what you’ve learned so far
bàba father
māma mother
nǚ'ér daughter
érzi son
háizi a child
Zhōngguórén a Chinese
Měiguórén an American
• and are all correct Chinese words. is used express closeness with the
said cat, dog or child.
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Quiz X (with answers)
1. _ (Tāmen yǒu _ ge háizi.)
A) (duōshao)
B) (liǎng)
C) (xiǎo)
A) (huì)
B) (néng)
C) (hǎo)
A) (de)
B) (yě)
C) (le)
B) (Zài fēijīshàng)
(Hěn piàoliang!)
(Tài piàoliang le !)
Tā shì Zhōngguórén.
A) (Tā bù huì.)
Translate
Answer
A) (Liǎngbǎi kuài.)
B) (Sānshíwǔ.)
Phrases
By the end of this chapter you will:
1. be able to introduce yourself
2. apologise and excuse yourself
3. be able to have a telephone conversation
4. ask questions and thank others
gěi to give
zàijiàn good-bye
xiàyǔ to rain
gōngzuò work
zěnme how
hé and
What You Need to Know
• means ‘please’, but it also means ‘to invite’ or ‘to treat’. For example, would
literary be translated as ‘I invite you to eat’, as in, let’s eat together. A more accurate
translation would be ‘this meal is my treat’.
• When you meet someone for the first time it’s polite to say (It’s a pleasure to
meet you)
• When someone calls you on the phone you should answer with (hello). is also used to
attract someone’s attention, for example, you see someone forgetting their glove, so you call
after them with (Hey! Hey!)
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Quiz XI (key)
1. _ (Nǐ jiào _ míngzi?)
A) (shéide)
B) (shénme)
C) (zěnme)
A) (hǎo)
B) (gāoxìng)
C) (piàoliang)
A) (zhù)
B) (yǒu)
C) (zài)
Translate
A) (Bù kèqi)
B) Méi guānxi
C) Duìbuqǐ
A) Wǒ shì lǎoshī.
C) Wǒ shì yīshēng.
Answer
B) (Duìbuqǐ)
C) (Zàijiàn)
A) (Hǎo de)
B) (Méi guānxi)
C) (Bù kèqi)
A) (Méi guānxi)
A) (Méi guānxi)
C) (Bù kèqi)
2 ba1 eight; 8
7 bu4 ke4 qi5 you're welcome; impolite; rude; blunt; don't mention it
14 da4 big; huge; large; major; great; wide; deep; oldest; eldest
23 dui4 bu5 qi3 unworthy; to let down; I'm sorry; excuse me; pardon me; if
you please; sorry? (please repeat)
24 duo1 many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-
36 hao3 good; well; proper; good to; easy to; very; so; (suffix
indicating completion or readiness)
37 he1 to drink; to shout (a command); My goodness!
42 hui4 can; be possible; be able to; will; be likely to; be sure to; to
assemble; to meet; to gather; to see; union; group;
association; CL: | [ge4]; a moment (Taiwan pr. for this
sense is hui3)
43 huo3 che1 zhan4 train station
48 jiu3 nine; 9
52 kuai4 lump (of earth); chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth,
cake, soap etc; colloquial word for yuan (or other unit of
currency such as Hong Kong or US dollar etc), usually as
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70 na4 that; those; then (in that case); commonly pr. nei4 before a
classifier, esp. in Beijing
70 na4 r5 there
79 qi1 seven; 7
82 qing3 to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to
request
No. Character Pinyin Translation
90 shang4 on; on top; upon; first (of multiple parts); previous; last;
upper; higher; above; to climb; to go into; to go up; to
attend (class or university)
91 shang4 wu3 morning; CL: | [ge4]
95 shi2 ten; 10
102 shuo1 hua4 to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word
104 sui4 classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)
No. Character Pinyin Translation
105 ta1 he or him; (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or
unimportant); (used before sb's name for emphasis); (used
as a meaningless mock object); other; another
106 ta1 she
111 wei4 hello (interj., esp. on telephone); hey; to feed (sb or some
animal)
112 wo3 I; me; my
116 xia4 down; downwards; below; lower; later; next (week etc);
second (of two parts); to decline; to go down
117 xia4 wu3 afternoon; p.m.; CL: | [ge4]
119 xian1 sheng5 teacher; Mister (Mr.); husband; doctor (topolect); CL: |
[ge4], [wei4]
131 yi1 one; 1; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all;
throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi
radical 1)
132 yi1 fu5 clothes; CL: [jian4], [tao4]
138 zai4 (located) at; (to be) in; to exist; in the middle of doing sth;
(indicating an action in progress)
139 zai4 jian4 goodbye; see you again later
141 zen3 me5 yang4 how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?
142 zhe4 this; these; (commonly pr. zhei4 before a classifier, esp. in
Beijing)
142 zhe4 r5 here
Happy learning!
Eva Dovc
and Team M2E