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- Making "-ize" and "-ify" verbs with "hua"
- (Redirected from ASGS6UKN)
- Level B2
- Similar to
- Used for
- Describing actions
- Keywords
- 化
- The suffix 化 (huà) can be added to the end of many Chinese words to make them into verbs, the equivalent of "-ize" or "-ify" in English.
- Contents
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- 1 Structure
- 2 Examples
- 2.1 With a Noun
- 2.2 With an Adjective
- 3 Sources and further reading
- 3.1 Books
- Structure
- You can take some Chinese nouns and adjectives and add a 化 to the end of them to make "-ize" or "-ify" them. Basically, 化 takes the noun or adjective and makes it into a verb. One example of how we do that in English is to take the word "modern" and turn it into "modernize." Most of the time, the Chinese words that 化 is added to are two-character words.
- Noun / Adj. + 化
- Examples
- The following is a short list of examples 化 words and sentences. Note that while the suffix 化 most often corresponds to "-ize" or "-ify" in English, these are not the only options in English. (Ah, you gotta love the endless variety of the English language!)
- With a Noun
- 现代化
- modernize
- 中国化
- sinicize, Chinese-ify
- 美国化
- Americanize
- KFC 的 中国 本土化 经营 做 得 非常 成功。
- KFC's Chinese localization has been implemented very successfully.
- 邓小平 提出了 四 个 现代化：工业现代化、农业现代化、国防现代化、科学技术现代化。
- Deng Xiaoping set forth the Four Modernizations: industrial modernization, agricultural modernization, national defense modernization, and scientific technology modernization.
- 现在 我们 公司 的工作 流程 和 人事 管理 已经 初步 制度化 了。
- These days our company's workflows and HR management have already started to be systematized.
- With an Adjective
- 美化
- beautification
- 绿化
- "greenify"
- 软化
- soften
- 你 应该 让 黄油 软化，然后 跟 面包 一起 吃。
- You should allow the butter to soften, then eat it with bread.
- 我们 保护 环境 是 为了 美化 我们 的 城市。
- We protect the environment in order to beautify our city.
- 每年 我们 的 绿化 面积 都 在 扩大。
- Every year our green[ified] area is expanding.
- Sources and further reading
- Books
- 卓越汉语－公司实战篇 (pp. 68) [ →buy]
- Contemporary Chinese 4 (当代中文4) (pp. 17) →buy
- Short-term Spoken Chinese: Intermediate (汉语口语速成中级篇) (pp. 90) [ →buy]
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