Chinese Adjectives

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Chinese Adjectives

Learning the Chinese Adjectives is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Chinese language. But first we need to know what the role of Adjectives is in the structure of the grammar in Chinese.

Chinese Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.

An adjective in Chinese is formed by adding the character for bulls eye "de" at the end of a noun, but it can also be placed after a whole sentence making the whole sentence as a adjective, Chinese use this structure to constructed a relative sentence. Like “The man whom I saw walking in the street was my father, would be translated in Chinese as:” 我看到在路上走路的人时我的爸爸” wǒ kàn dào zài lù shàng zǒu lù de rén shí wǒ de bà bà - I see on road walking-de man is my father. Here are some examples:

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Adjectives in Chinese has a logical pattern. Locate the Adjectives above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Mandarin.

List of Adjectives in Chinese

Below is a list of the Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes in Chinese placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Chinese vocabulary.

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