要is often used to form imperative sentences in Chinese. That is, sentences that give commands. 要is pretty much only used to form negative commands. For example, 要is the easiest way to express “don’t”: 不要碰我的东西。 Búyào pèng wǒ de dōngxī.

快要(kuài yào) is generally “about to” [happen], but 就要(jiù yào) could be used to mark a more specific time. 要(yào) here can be omitted. For this one, you wouldn’t normally use “about to” for this English translation, but the feeling is nevertheless that the impending event is coming up fast. This use of 就(jiù) overlaps …

Whether it’s a completed action or a change of state, 了 le in Chinese always indicates transformation. Keep asking, “where’s the change” every time you see 了, and you’ll be a 了 master before long. If you want to learn more about Chinese grammar particles, we suggest you read this post about the Chinese particle 的 de.

Yàoshi wǒ shì nǐ, wǒ jiù huì qù. If I were you, I would go. Just remember to always put the subject before 就, and not after it.

born on Thursday
Meaning:born on Thursday.

Chinese English Pinyin Dictionary Search with English, Pinyin, or Chinese characters. 想 xiǎng. to think to believe to suppose to wish to want to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth) Example Usage Strokes Grammar notes.

You probably already know the basic meaning of 要(yào) as “to want.” It is actually a quite versatile word, though, and can also take on the meanings of “to need” as well as “will (do something).” In every case, context is crucial for figuring out which meaning someone is trying to express.

In China, we have an alternative way of saying numbers, e.g. 1 (yao), 2 (liang), 3 (san), 4 (si), 5 (wu), 6 (liu), 7 (guai), 8 (ba), 9 (gou), 0 (dong). One explanation is that people easily mistake 1 (yi) for 7 (qi) when talking on the phone. This way of saying numbers is said to be for military use.

gāo xìng. happy glad willing (to do sth) in a cheerful mood. Example Usage Strokes.

if 了 is within a single content word, it should be produnced as “liao”. if 了 acts as an independent auxiliary word indicating a change of state or introducing a new situation (Verbs have no past tense in Chinese, therefore some auxiliary words would be used to indicate it), it should be produnced as “le”.

Yao (Chinese: 姚; pinyin: Yáo), also romanized as Yiu in Cantonese, is one of the most ancient Chinese surnames, the “Eight Great Xings of High Antiquity”….Yao (surname)

Yao Surname User-submission: The surname is of Chinese origin, with Qiu being the pinyin for Mandarin. Other transliterations from the Mandarin are Chiu or Chiou, while Yau/Yao being its Cantonese transliteration. Koo and Gu are the Korean ones.

Written languages. There is a separate written standard for Bunu, since it is from the Hmong/Miao side, rather than the Mien/Yao side, of the Miao–Yao language family. Some people think that a variety of Yao is, or was, written in Nüshu, an indigenous script in Southern part of Hunan Province in China.

Around 1890, the Guangdong government started taking action against Yao in Northwestern Guangdong. The first Chinese exonym for “Yao people” was the graphic pejorative yao 猺 (犭”dog radical” and yao 䍃 phonetic) “jackal”, with twentieth-century reforms this was changed to yao: “precious jade”.

Badong Yao language (Chinese:八垌瑶语) is an unclassified Sinitic language spoken by the Yao people in Xinning County, Hunan province, China. Badong Yao is currently endangered, and is spoken in the villages of Huangyandong 黄岩峒, Malindong 麻林峒, and Dazhendong 大圳峒 in Huangjin Ethnic Yao Township 黄金瑶族乡, Xinning County.

The language almost entirely lacks inflection and so words typically have only one grammatical form. Categories such as number (singular or plural) and verb tense are frequently not expressed by any grammatical means, but there are several particles that serve to express verbal aspect and, to some extent, mood .