Look Who it Was Random video

Intermediate Mandarin Chinese: "The Bride is Beautiful Isn't She?" with eChineseLearning

1,020 views · Published 6 October 2018 · 5:41 · Indexed 24 October 2026

Channel: eChineseLearning · 2018 · Education

Watch on YouTube

Watch today's helpful video lesson with Teacher Ellie and stick around for the useful Review Quiz afterwards. You can check your answers with us here: https://goo.gl/KLhpc3
To sign up for a Free Trial lesson, check out our course offerings HERE: https://goo.gl/jBQREt
________________________

In a previous lesson, Teacher Ellie showed you how to use the particle "吧 (ba)" to indicate suggestions before.

In today's lesson, Teacher Ellie will show you how to use "吧 (ba)" to indicate suppositions.

The commonly-used sentence structure is:

Subject + 很 (hĕn) + adjective + 吧 (ba)?
________________________

In Chinese, when you have a presumption about something, but are not completely sure, the particle "吧 (ba)" can be added at the end of the sentence to form a question.

The equivalent in English is the "tag question" such as "isn't that right?".

For example: 

Xīnniáng hěn piàoliang ba?
新娘很漂亮吧?
The bride is beautiful, isn't she?

新娘 (xīnniáng) = bride
很 (hěn) = very
漂亮 (piàoliang) = beautiful 

Xīnniáng hěn piàoliang.
新娘很漂亮.
The bride is beautiful.

When we add the particle "吧 (ba)" to this sentence to ask for reassurance, it reads like this:

Xīnniáng hěn piàoliang ba?
新娘很漂亮吧?
The bride is beautiful, isn't she?
_______________________

Mápó dòufu hěn là ba?
麻婆豆腐很辣吧?
Mapo tofu is spicy, isn't it?

Nĭ kàn, tā hěn kě'ài ba?
你看, 她很可爱吧？
Look, she is cute, isn't she?
_______________________

In spoken Chinese, the "subject" in this structure can be omitted:

Instead of:
subject + 很 (hĕn) + adjective + 吧 (ba) 

You can use:
很 (hĕn) + adjective + 吧 (ba)?

Hěn kù, ba?
很酷, 吧？
Pretty cool, isn't it?
_______________________

For a helpful lesson on how to write the stroke order of particle you can real our FULL LESSON with us here: https://goo.gl/vshZVi
_______________________

Don't forget to subscribe and stay tuned for more Chinese lessons with us. Learn Chinese on Skype and enjoy our online Chinese conversation lessons with qualified teachers in China!

Please like, share and comment on today's video to keep in touch with us.

www.echineselearning.com

More from this channel