什么
shénme
What
什么
shénme
What
FUNCTION
To ask a person “How are you?”, or to ask how someone else is doing (“How is he?”) use the question word 怎么样 (zěnmeyàng), “how”:
你叫什么名字?
Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?
What is your name?
(lit. “You-be called-what-name?”)
What is your name?
(lit. “You-be called-what-name?”)
你做什么?
Nǐ zuò shénme?
What are you doing?
(lit. “You-do-what?”)
What are you doing?
(lit. “You-do-what?”)
STRUCTURE
Subject + verb + 什么? |
Subject + verb + 什么 + noun?
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