In Chinese language, the character 的 may be used:
1) to express possession
Noun 1 + 的 + Noun 2
爸爸的车 - bàba de chē - Dad's car
2) to attribute adjectives to nouns
Adj. + 的 + Noun
可爱的宝宝 - kě'ài de bǎobǎo - a cute baby
This Chinese joke illustrates the difference:
以后我有了儿子，我要给他起个名字叫 “好帅”， 别人看见了我，就会说“好帅的爸爸”。
Yǐhòu wǒ yǒu le er zi, wǒ yào gěi tā qǐ gè míngzì jiào “hǎo shuài”, biérén kànjiànle wǒ, jiù huì shuō “hǎo shuài de bàba”
When I have a son, I'm going to name him Hao Shuai ("Handsome"). Then, other people will call me "Handsome Dad".
成绩单
“你的成绩单在哪里？”
父亲质问刚从学校回来的孩子。
“我把它借给汤姆，让他吓唬一下自己的父母！”
Chéng jī dān
“Nǐ de chéng jī dān zài nǎ lǐ?”
Fù qīn zhì wèn gāng cóng xué xiào huí lái de hái zi.
“Wǒ bǎ tā jiè gěi tāng mǔ, ràng tā xià hǔ yī xià zì jǐ de fù mǔ!”
Report card
"Where is your report card?", a father asks a child who has just come from school.
"I have given in to Tom, so that he could scare his parents a little bit."
找对象 - zhǎo duì xiàng - to look for a marriage partner
本地 - běndì - local
家境好 - jiājìng hǎo - to have a good family
有福相 - yǒu fú xiàng - to have joyous and contented look
我能不能找我想要的啊！ - wǒ néng bùnéng zhǎo wǒ xiǎng yào de a! - Can I find what I want?
上对外汉语课，老师提问：
“同学们，你们每人说一个汉语成语，形容老师今天很开心很高兴的样子。”
学生很活跃：
“眉开眼笑”
“开怀大笑”
“兴高采烈”……。
老师接着说，
“说出来的成语里要含有数字，
比如一、二、三、四……。”
一位留学生反应很快，大声抢答：
“老师，含笑九泉!”
shàng duìwài hànyǔ kè, lǎoshī tíwèn:
“Tóngxuémen, nǐmen měi rén shuō yīgè hànyǔ chéngyǔ, xíngróng lǎoshī jīntiān hěn kāixīn hěn gāoxìng de yàngzi.”
Xuéshēng hěn huóyuè:
“Méikāiyǎnxiào”
“kāihuái dà xiào”
“xìnggāocǎiliè”…….
Lǎoshī jiēzhe shuō,
“shuō chūlái de chéngyǔ lǐ yào hányǒu shùzì,
bǐrú yī, èr, sān, sì…….”
Yī wèi liúxuéshēng fǎnyìng hěn kuài, dàshēng qiǎngdá:
“Lǎoshī, hánxiào jiǔquán!”
At a foreign Language class, the teacher asked:
"Students, each of you say a Chinese idiom describing a teacher who is very happy and cheerful."
Students are very active:
"Be all smiles"
"Laugh a hearty laugh"
"In great delight" ...
The teacher then said,
"In the idiom there should be a number, such as one, two, three, four ...."
One student answered quickly and loudly:
"Teacher, smile in the underworld!"
A: 这么热，你怎么睡得着啊？
zhè me rè, nǐ zěn me shuì de zháo a
It is so hot! How can you get to sleep?
B: 热晕过去就睡着了。
rè yūn guò qù jiù shuì zháo le
Faint from heat and then fall asleep.
See below the grammar notes for this joke!
樱桃什么时候摘最适合啊？
yīng táo shén me shí hòu zhāi zuì shì hé a
When is best time to pick cherries?
没人的时候。。。
méi rén de shíhòu...
When there is nobody around…
Grammar Points
你的未婚夫知道你的年龄吗？
nǐ de wèi hūn fū zhī dào nǐ de nián líng ma
Does you fiance know your age?
是的，他知道一部分。
shì de tā zhī dào yī bù fèn
Yes, partly.
In Chinese language, 想 (xiǎng) basically means "to think", "to reckon" or "to miss", but it also acts as an auxiliary verb expressing modality.
In this case 想 is translated as "want to…" or "would like to…".
The grammar pattern is as follows:
Subject + 想(xiǎng) + Verb (Object)
The verb provides the main content of the clause, while 想 expresses the desire to do something.
Examples:
病人：“医生，你把剪刀留在我肚子里了。”
bìng rén: yīshēng, nǐ bǎ jiǎndāo liú zài wǒ dù zi lǐ le
Patient: "Doctor, you have left a pair of scissors in my stomach."
医生：“没关系，我还有一把。”
yī shēng: méi guān xì wǒ hái yǒu yī bǎ
Doctor: "It does not matter, I have another one."
Grammar Points
In Chinese language, ordinal numbers are formed by just adding the prefix:
第 (dì) + cardinal number
Порядковые числительные в китайском языке образуются по простой формуле:
第 (dì) + количественное числительное
E. g.:
- 第一 (dìyī) - the first - первый
- 第十 (dìshí) - the tenth - десятый
- 减肥 - jiǎnféi - похудеть, сбросить вес
- 瘦了 X 斤 - shòu le X jīn - потерять X фунтов
- ___ 之中 - ___ zhī zhōng - в течение ___
我妻子想减肥，所以她每天都去骑马。结果马一个月之中瘦了四十斤。
Wǒ qīzi xiǎng jiǎnféi, suǒyǐ tā měitiān dōu qù qímǎ. Jiéguǒ mǎ yīgè yuè zhī zhōng shòule sìshí jīn.
My wife decided to lose weight, so she rode a horse every day. As a result, the horse lost 40 pounds in a month.
Моя жена решила похудеть, поэтому стала каждый день ездить верхом. В результате лошадь за месяц похудела на 40 фунтов.
