Lessons 1-10 Mandarin Chinese Lesson 49: 应该 Should

你 应该 好好儿 休息 。 You should have a good rest.
Nǐ yīnggāi hǎohāor xiūxi.
You should good-good rest-rest.

杨 先生 应该 休息。 Mr. Yang should take a rest。
Yáng xiānsheng yīnggāi xiūxi.
Yang first-born should rest-rest.

她 应该 亲自 去 一 趟。 She should go in person.
Tā yīnggāi qīnzì qù yí tànɡ.
She should intimate-oneself go one trip.

我 应该 给 她 打 电话。 I should give her a phone call.
Wǒ yīnggāi gěi tā dǎ diànhuà.
I should give her hit electric-talk.

我 应该 节食。 I should go on a diet.
Wǒ yīnggāi jiéshí.
I should segment-food.

学生们 应该 学会 思考。 The students should learn how to think.
Xuéshēngmen yīnggāi xuéhuì sīkǎo.
Study-born-plural should study consider-verify.

年轻人 应该 自力更生。 Young people should be self-reliant.
Niánqīnɡrén yīnggāi zìlìgēngshēng.
Year-light-person should oneself-strength-more-life.

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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.