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Beginner Chinese: "Yes or No? Do You Want To?" with eChineseLearning

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Channel: eChineseLearning · 2017 · Education

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Teacher Rachel will introduce a sentence structure which you can use to ask if someone wants to do something or not in Mandarin Chinese.

The structure is:

subject + verb + 不 (bù) + verb

You can use this structure to check if someone wants to do something or not. 

不 (bù) means "no" or "not". 

Remember, due to the tonal rules of Mandarin Chinese, if the verb following 不 (bù) is a forth tone, then 不 (bù) will change to a second tone: 不 (bú). 

Nǐ qù bù qù.
你去不去.
Will you go or not?
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To answer the question with a positive response, you can use: 
"我去 (Wǒ qù)" which, very simply, means "I go". To make it even more simple, you can reply with simply "去(qù)", "go".

If your response is negative, you can reply with 
"我不去 (Wǒ bú qù)" which means "I won't go". The subject can also be omitted so that you can reply with 不去 (Bú qù).
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Sometimes, you can add an object after the sentence structure Rachel has introduced:

subject + verb + 不 (bù) + verb + object

Jill + 喜欢 (xǐhuān) + 不 (bù) + 喜欢 (xǐhuān) + Lady Gaga

"Does Jill like Lady Gaga or not?"
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