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