What does zhe ge

I have also come across "zhe ge shi.. What would that mean? Asked by Sara - General Chinese - 1 Answers. But people mostly use the short version in daily life. Can u help me unscramble this sentence Nai nai, song ta, zou, wo, de shi hou, huo che zhan, qu? What cultural differences should I be aware of when working with Chinese people? Xie xie nie.. Wo shi huan nie chang to sung to wo Wo ce tau ni te sin?

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So your question is: Why isn't the sentence "Zhe4 ben3 shi4 wo3 de shu1. To clarify this, let's take a look at an equivalent in english: "This piece of chocolate is my chocolate". You'd usually use the third sentence. And the same goes for Chinese. New Members. Posted November 22, at AM. The second sentence is also right. Just as you know, the third is easier to say.

And that is how people say it. This book is my book. We both know you are saying a book, so no need to say it out. This is my book. Easy and no misunderstanding. PS: I am Chinese. I want to learn English. Zhe4 be3n ha3o "This book is good" Am I correct on this? Shelley Posted November 22, at PM. Posted November 22, at PM. Oh Yes. This is great survival technique until you learn enough of the language.

How the heck do you do zhe ga on the telephone to a sleepy guard??!! Another thing to note - when friends from home who understand no chinese whatsoever come over here to visit, they often ask me what 'na ge' means after having heard so many chinese people plus myself say these two words. The pronunciation sounds a bit like 'nigger' and they were curious as to why the Chinese were constantly using this racist term! I wonder if this has ever caused any misunderstandings with black people who understand no Chinese on holiday in China!?

Ramesh -hehe.. A power cut is also hard hard to explain with zhe ge and na ge I think he was just plain lucky she gave him the right one!! True, nothing is more anyoing than the jippo guys who throw in foreign words in their own native language.

Ha - great article. I spent Saturday night at a wedding filled with expats from Ji'Nan, Shanghai and Beijing and they were saying similar things about zhe ga. Loving your blog! I quickly learned the wonders of zhe ge and na ge.

It makes getting food so much easier. I'm not completely sure since I still have a very limited grasp on Chinese, but in Xi'an people tend to use nei ge more often for the "like It was actually fairly awkward for the first week or so I was here.

Until someone explained to me what it meant, it always sounded like they were saying "nigger. Tripfriend -funny, I had exactly the same experience the first time I heard the 'na ge' That made me laugh. Sometimes you meet new foreigners in Japan and they try to speak Japanese with you. Sometimes their Japanese is good, sometimes it's bad, but that doesn't really matter: I don't want to speak Japanese with a foreigner just to show off. It's unnatural and kinda annoying Luckily, it only happens once in a while So he just uses two or three words non stop to impress his laowai friends who cant speak Chinese?

Ah, ignorance is bliss, isnt it? Or, conversely, knowledge is power, even if it's a tiny bit of knowledge : Reading about nege and "nigger" makes me remember a story a classmate once told me when she called her husband once. You dont mind if I tell you, do you? I'd love to hear it! When she said this, he said "What!!!