Many/Much/A lot

Survival Chinese Chapter 1 Lesson 4 Shopping CHECKKK
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So this part of the course is going to be called shopping in it will learn not only shopping words but also like numbers and wanting things and pointing at things and all of those wonderful useful things that we can use whenever we want something. Enjoy. Okay, so now we have Thor law law Okay, we have Domino Chinese but we also have Domino English and our Domino English name is actually called Bordeaux in one which is Bordeaux, which means many many English we thought that was a really good name and also sounded a bit like Domino in Chinese so yeah, we stuck with door door human toto English dies. Okay, so Dawn is the character that we'll be learning now it looks like that. It's actually the same character twice pronounced door it means a lot. It means many, but it also means much.

So what's interesting First of all, here we can note a little nice feature Another nice feature about Chinese which is that we don't really care for countable or uncountable nouns. Maybe you were just until this point happily on aware that English was this complicated but yeah, in English if you think of it, we have two one battery or one cup or one, something like that. But if we say something uncountable they can't be one water anymore. And accordingly then we have to say many cups, many batteries, but also much water. And in Chinese, we've just gone with thought for all of those words. So thought means many, much also a lot.

But do you remember what I said before when we learned how it's actually much more common to put a hyphen before it so that's what we're always going to do with door we're not never going to say or door door which always actually going to say, door Hunter. So hunter meaning very many very much or we can just translate it from now on to like, oh, a lot, simply. Wonderful. So one door one door. So if you see something you go on tour, or if there's a lot of people people remember was a Gen so we could say hunt origin, or there's a lot of things we can say wow. And bought Dong she wonderful, or specifically going for Chinese people on door to Korean Honduran, so many Chinese people, fantastic.

Now we can say I want a lot of things. Maybe we can say, well, it's actually enough to just say why y'all have gone. But if you want to be specific, you can say I want a lot of things you can say, well, y'all don't see. Or don't see. Fantastic, isn't it? Wow, under don't under don't say.

Okay, so using that door, now we'll put that together with the opposite, which is the opposite of many is less or few. Okay, so then we go with shuttle shuttle shuttle. So what we'll do then is door and shell First of all, put them together actually, and form a very, very useful thing, because that's actually how you ask for how many or how much of something. So when when someone asks you, how much is this? or How old are you? Or how many years?

Or how many things do you want? You always say Porsche, Porsche, Porsche, Porsche, and in a second here in this course, we'll start learning numbers so we can say Oh, one, so the question will be boresha, and the answer There will be a number simply Mm hmm. So then we can say how many people for instance for Shell, Jen, or we can say how many things Bosch outdoorsy? Fantastic. Now we can also make that into a question we can ask how many do you want ne Yo, and then we ask for shout at the end. Remember, remember Shama was a question word and that was added at the very end of the sentence.

Now, we do the same thing with door shock, because that's also a question. So we don't start with them. We actually finished with them in Chinese just pay attention to that, please. Thank you. Ne Yo, Portia Nieto, and then we get to go. Now, I should show you an example of that.

But let's wait until the next video where we've started learning numbers and we can put them together and at that point, we'll be able to have a more comprehensive conversation with someone as well. So one last thing that I want to mention here is that we can put door together with anything and that actually is going to replace How to say how as in how much or how many, or how old or anything like that, okay, so we can put door together with any adjective basically, and so far the adjectives that we've learned our door How as in how good is this? I'll take a bow How good is this take a toe Ha. All we can go how beautiful isn't she? Or how beautiful Am I not? And Thor may fantastic but the most by far common one, especially that we've learned so far is door show as in how many how much fantastic

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