Lessons 1-10 Mandarin Chinese Lesson 51: 天气 Weather

天气 太 冷 了。 The weather is too cold.
Tiānqì tài lěng le.
Sky-air too cold.

秋天 天气 真 好。 The fall weather is really nice.
Qiūtiān tiānqì zhēn hǎo.
Fall-sky sky-air real good.

昨天 天气 真 好。 The weather was really nice yesterday.
Zuótiān tiānqì zhēn hǎo.
Yesterday-sky sky-air real good.

武汉 夏天 的 天气 太 热。 In Wuhan the summer weather is too hot.
Wǔhàn xiàtiān de tiānqì tài rè.
Military-Han summer-sky of sky-air too hot.

天气 预报 说 明天 有 雨。 The weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow.
Tiānqì yùbào shuō míngtiān yǒu yǔ.
Sky-air advance-report say bright-sky have rain.

冬天 天气 不 太 冷。 The winter weather is not too cold.
Dōngtiān tiānqì bú tài lěng.
Winter-sky sky-air no too cold.

哈尔滨 夏天 的 天气 不 太 热。 In Harbin the summer weather is not too hot.
Hāĕrbīn xiàtiān de tiānqì bú tài rè.
Laughter-thus-shore summer-sky of sky-air not too hot.

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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.