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- How to say "and": Chinese has several words for "and." Gēn is the word for "and"
- when joining nouns or noun phrases. Yě is the word for "and" when Joining verbs,
- verb phrases, or whole sentences:
- Example 2.1. Example:
- Wǒ bú xìng Lǐ, yě bú xìng Lǔ. Wǒ xìng Lǚ.
- I'm not surnamed Lǐ and I'm not surnamed Lǔ. I'm surnamed Lǚ.
- Chinese tends to use a word for "and" when the noun phrases being Joined are
- not parallel and not to use one when the phrases are parallel:
- Not parallel
- Yǒu
- wǒ tàitai
- gēn
- sānge háizi.
- Possessor noun
- number noun
- There's my wife and
- 3 children.
- Parallel
- Yǒu
- liǎngge nánháizi
- ,
- yíge nǚháizi.
- number noun
- number noun
- There are 2 boys and
- one girl.
- While "and" is often omitted in Chinese, it may be added for emphasis between
- nouns and between noun phrases just as in English.
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