Lessons 1-10 Mandarin Chinese Lesson 27: Give

请 给 他 打 电话。 Please give him a phone call.
Qĭng gĕi tā dă diànhuà.
Please give he hit electric-talk.

给 我 看。Let me see.
Gĕi wŏ kàn.
Give I see.

给 我 看 收据。Let me see the receipt.
Gĕi wŏ kàn shōujù.
Give I see receive-according to.

请 给 我 看 菜单。Please let me see the menu.
Qĭng gĕi wŏ kàn càidān.
Please give I see food-list.

郑 先生 给了 我 一个 词典。Mr. Zheng gave me a dictionary.
Zhèng xiānsheng gĕi le wŏ yī gè cídiăn.
Zheng first-born give finished I one phrase-collection.

我的 朋友 给了 我 一个 地图。My friend gave me a map.
Wŏde péngyou gĕi le wŏ yī gè dìtú.
I-of friend give I one earth-diagram.

她的 男朋友 给了 她 这 些 花。Her boyfriend gave her these flowers.
Tāde nánpéngyou gĕi le tā zhè xiē huā.
She-of man-friend give finished she this flowers.

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Mandarin is a tone language--that is, different pitch patterns actually distinguish one word from another. Mandarin has no irregular verbs or noun plurals to learn, because words have only a single form. Because Mandarin is completely unrelated to any European language, you may think it might be difficult to develop your vocabulary. However, it really is not that difficult. Why? The reason is that the meanings of many words consisting of two or more characters can be inferred from the meanings of the characters or even the roots of individual characters. So, your vocabulary can rapidly expand when you have grasped the basic characters and character roots.