Lessons 1-10 Mandarin Chinese Lesson 57: 开 Open

打开 礼物 吧！ Let's open the present!
Dǎkāi lǐwù ba!
Hit-open gift-thing!

银行 几 点 开门? When does the bank open?
Yínháng jǐ diǎn kāimén?
Silver-firm which dot hit-open?

请问 游泳池 几 点 开门? Excuse me, when does the swimming pool open?
Qǐngwèn yóuyǒnɡchí jǐ diǎn kāimén?
Please-ask roam-swim-pond which dot hit-open?

请 开 风扇。 Please turn on the fan.
Qǐng kāi fēngshàn.
Please open wind-fan.

开 电饭煲。 Turn on the rice cooker.
Kāi diànfànbāo.
Open electric-fan-saucepan.

卢 小姐 想 开 个 账户。 Ms. Lu wants to open a bank account.
Lú xiǎojiě xiǎng kāi gè zhànghù.
Lu little-big-sister open one account-household.

我 想 开 一家 文具店。 I want to open a stationary store.
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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.