L1p38
Lesson 38
Rules of the Pinyin (phonetics)<6>
6. There are a few characters which have no tone marks on them and they pronounce lightly:
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吗 –- ma |
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interrogative word |
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呢 –- ne |
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interrogative word |
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了 –- le |
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used after a verb to show the action is finished. |
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么 -- me |
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a suffix. |
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的 -- de |
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used after a noun to form an adjective. |
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你 们-- nǐ men |
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some words just have no tone marks (meaning “you” ) |
