What do you like doing?你喜欢什么
What is the best way to get you started in Chinese? Some vocabulary related to things you and other people like doing. This is always a winner and I recommend you look through it. If you are familiar with pinyin, it should be easy but be careful with the tones. If you would like to ask someone about their favourite activities or hobbies, the question you need to ask is nǐ xǐ huān shén me?In Chinese it looks like this: 你喜欢什么. It literally means: What do you like? You can answer this way: wǒ xǐ huān …….. which means ‘I like’. Then you put any of the verbs below.
跑步 pǎo bù = Running/ 跑 pǎo=Runing 步 bù =step
唱歌 chàng gē= singing/ 唱 chàng=sing 歌gē=song
游泳 yóu yǒng =swimming/ this two characters all mean swimming
看书 kàn shū=reading / 看kàn =look or watch 书shū=book
Review
——— pǎo bù
———chàng gē
———-yóu yǒng
———–kàn shū
Let’s break down the phrase again, word by word.
你喜欢什么 what do you like?
我喜欢… I like ….
你喜欢什么:
你 nǐ means you
喜欢xǐ huān means Like
什么shén me means what
我 wǒ means I or Me
So, if we translate this phrase into English, it will be ‘You like what?‘ which is quite Chinglish but easy to remember.
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