Chinese for English speakers Clothes · Lesson 2

What about doing...?

Chinese suggestion 怎么样 — Put 怎么样 at sentence end to suggest activities — 你去哪里吃午饭? (Where will you eat lunch?).

Conversation

  1. Rose Rose

    你去哪里吃午饭？

    nǐ qù nǎ lǐ chī wǔ fàn?

    Where are you going to have lunch?

    Tip: 去 <qù> + place + verb = to go to a place to do something

  2. Bob Bob

    我去饭店吃饭。

    wǒ qù fàn diàn chī fàn.

    I'm going to have my lunch at the restaurant.

  3. Rose Rose

    我们一起去怎么样？

    wǒ men yì qǐ qù zěn me yàng?

    What about going there together?

    Tip: 怎么样？ <zěnmeyàng> = what about it?

  4. Bob Bob

    好的。

    hǎo de.

    Sure.

Common questions

Quick answers about this lesson's grammar and vocabulary.

What does 怎么样 mean?

'How about ...? / what about ...?'. At end of sentence: suggests/asks opinion. 吃饺子怎么样? = 'how about dumplings?'.

What is 午饭?

'Lunch'. 早饭 (breakfast), 午饭 (lunch), 晚饭 (dinner). 吃饭 = to eat/have a meal.

Common Chinese meals?

早饭/早餐 (breakfast), 午饭/午餐 (lunch), 晚饭/晚餐 (dinner), 点心 (snacks/dim sum), 宵夜 (late-night snack).

Test yourself

Pick the English translation for each line from this lesson. Wrong answers are pulled from other Chinese lessons.

4 quick questions on what you just heard.

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