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Lesson 5 Where are you from In Chinese

Posted on 2022-04-17 By admin

This lesson teach you how to express Where are you from In Chinese.

我 是 中国人。 I am Chinese.

wǒ shì zhōng guó rén.

我 是 Li hua。 I am Li hua.

wǒ shì Li hua.

我 叫 Tom。 My name is Tom.

wǒ jiào Tom.

你 是 哪 国 人? Which country do you come from?

nǐ shì nǎ guó rén?

Dialogue

A: 你 是 哪 国 人 ?

Nǐ shì nǎ guó rén ?

What’s your nationality?

 

B: 我 是 中国 人 。

Wǒ shì zhōng guó rén .

I am Chinese.

 

A: 你 好 , 你 是 哪 国 人 ?

Nǐ hǎo , nǐ shì nǎ guó rén ?

Hello, what’s your nationality?

 

B: 我 是 英国 人 。 你 呢 ?

wǒ shì Yīng guó rén , nǐ ne ?

I am Britisher, what about you?

 

A: 我 是 中国 人 。

Wǒ shì zhōng guó rén .

I am Chinese.

 

A: 王富贵 是 哪 国 人 ?

Wáng Fùgùi shì nǎ guó rén ?

What’s Wáng Fùgùi’s nationality?

 

B: 王富贵 是 俄罗斯 人 。

Wáng Fùgùi shì éluósī rén .

Wáng Fùgùi is a Russians.

 

Vocabulary

哪 nǎ pron.which

国 guó n. country

人 rén n. person or people

中国 zhōng guó n. China

中国人 zhōng guó rén n. Chinese person

美国 měi guó n. America

美国人 měi guó rén n. American

Expansion

Other ways to ask people’s nationality.

你 是 哪 个 国 家 的 人 ?

Nǐ shì nǎ ge guó jiā de rén ?

What’s your nationality? (A more casual way of saying“nǐ shì nǎ guó rén?”)

 

你 从 哪 里 来 ?

Nǐ cóng nǎ lǐ lái ?

Where do you come from?

 

Grammar

The use of 是( shì )—To be (am/ is/are)

是( shì ) is a verb which means to be, and you can consider it equivalent to “am, is, are” in English. Because Chinese verbs don’t conjugate, 是( shì )doesn’t change to singular or plural forms. No matter you want to say I am, she is, you are or they are, we use the same 是( shì ) after the subject.

Tips: subject + 是( shì ) +noun, that is, subject + verb (be) + object

For exampe:

我 是 美国人 。

wǒ shì měi guó rén .

I am American.

我 是 软件工程师。

wǒ shì ruǎn jiàn ɡōnɡ chénɡ shī.

I am a software engineer .

我 是 警察。

wǒ shì jǐng chá.

I am policeman .

Which— 哪(nǎ )or 哪个 (nǎ gè)

The Chinese word 哪个 (nǎ gè) is equivalent to “which” in English. And sometimes we can just use 哪(nǎ )short for 哪个 (nǎ gè) if 哪(nǎ ) is followed by a measure word ( The measue word will be introduced in Lesson 21). Today you can simply remember 哪国(nǎ guó) literally means which country.

subject  verb object

我 是 中国人。

wǒ shì zhōng guó rén.

I am Chinese person.

change the  unchanged change to the corresponding question word

subject  verb object

你 是 哪 国 人?

nǐ shì nǎ guó rén?

You are which country person?

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