....does this even go here oh well
I'm bored so maybe sometimes I'll post something here related to grammar or other stuff! o: I've always wanted to teach people a little something about it but I myself am still learning and orz This will all be in simplified chinese and assume Mandarin pronunciation
Anyway:
#1 NUMBERS.
Chinese numbers are pretty simple. They're structured about the same as English.
Here's one through ten:
一 - one (duh)
二 - two (also kind of duh)
三 - three (same as before)
四 - four
五 - five
六 - six
七 - seven
八 - eight
九 - nine
十 - ten
To make 11, you simply put 十 and 一 with each other, making 十一 (eleven). To make numbers like 27, you put 二 and 十 and 七 all together. Now obviously we have to go past 100 and even 1000 and so on, right?
Here's some more units:
百 - hundred
千 - thousand
万 - ten thousand
to make one hundred, you put 一 and 百 together. 127 = 一百二十七 so on so forth
一千 = one thousand
一千二百五十七 = one thousand two hundred fifty seven
五万六千三百二十七 = 56,327
Now sometimes 二 is replaced by 两. Most of the time counting uses 二 but anything else usually uses 两. However, sometimes you have to say 两 when you're counting. This usually starts from 100 on. If we wanted to say two hundred, you say 两百. If you want to say two thousand, you say 两千, etc.
Chinese doesn't introduce another character until you get to 100 million (亿), but you'll probably never count that high anyway.
Pronunciation is a whole other issue itself ^^; I'll probably explain it later or something.
but here's the Pīnyīn (the romanization system of Chinese) for all the numbers:
一 - Yī
二 - èr
三 - sān
四 - sì
五 - wǔ
六 - liù
七 - qī
八 - bā
九 - jiǔ
十 - shí
百 - bǎi
千 - qiān
万 - wàn
亿 - yì
There's also zero... and you pretty much only say zero when you want to say... just zero.
零 - Líng
You might want to get google translate to pronounce it for you, but sometimes machine translators pronounce stuff oddly or wrong o:
You should also take into account that in Chinese....some words have multiple pronunciations and meanings. Also many words share the same pronunciation, but all have varying meanings.
You need to be accustomed to pick apart what people are saying sometimes, but best of luck for now 8D
I'm bored so maybe sometimes I'll post something here related to grammar or other stuff! o: I've always wanted to teach people a little something about it but I myself am still learning and orz This will all be in simplified chinese and assume Mandarin pronunciation
Anyway:
#1 NUMBERS.
Chinese numbers are pretty simple. They're structured about the same as English.
Here's one through ten:
一 - one (duh)
二 - two (also kind of duh)
三 - three (same as before)
四 - four
五 - five
六 - six
七 - seven
八 - eight
九 - nine
十 - ten
To make 11, you simply put 十 and 一 with each other, making 十一 (eleven). To make numbers like 27, you put 二 and 十 and 七 all together. Now obviously we have to go past 100 and even 1000 and so on, right?
Here's some more units:
百 - hundred
千 - thousand
万 - ten thousand
to make one hundred, you put 一 and 百 together. 127 = 一百二十七 so on so forth
一千 = one thousand
一千二百五十七 = one thousand two hundred fifty seven
五万六千三百二十七 = 56,327
Now sometimes 二 is replaced by 两. Most of the time counting uses 二 but anything else usually uses 两. However, sometimes you have to say 两 when you're counting. This usually starts from 100 on. If we wanted to say two hundred, you say 两百. If you want to say two thousand, you say 两千, etc.
Chinese doesn't introduce another character until you get to 100 million (亿), but you'll probably never count that high anyway.
Pronunciation is a whole other issue itself ^^; I'll probably explain it later or something.
but here's the Pīnyīn (the romanization system of Chinese) for all the numbers:
一 - Yī
二 - èr
三 - sān
四 - sì
五 - wǔ
六 - liù
七 - qī
八 - bā
九 - jiǔ
十 - shí
百 - bǎi
千 - qiān
万 - wàn
亿 - yì
There's also zero... and you pretty much only say zero when you want to say... just zero.
零 - Líng
You might want to get google translate to pronounce it for you, but sometimes machine translators pronounce stuff oddly or wrong o:
You should also take into account that in Chinese....some words have multiple pronunciations and meanings. Also many words share the same pronunciation, but all have varying meanings.
You need to be accustomed to pick apart what people are saying sometimes, but best of luck for now 8D
