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Learning the Chinese Adjectives displayed below is vital to the language. 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:
| English Adjectives | Chinese Adjectives |
|---|---|
| adjectives | xíng róng cí - 形容词 |
| a green tree | yī kē lǜ sè de shù - 一棵绿色的树 |
| a tall building | yī zuò gāo lóu - 一座高楼 |
| a very old man | yī gè hěn lǎo de rén - 一个很老的人 |
| the old red house | lǎo hóng fáng zi - 老红房子 |
| a very nice friend | yī gè fēi cháng hǎo de péng yǒu - 一个非常好的朋友 |
Notice 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.
While in English an adjective doesn’t change when the noun changes, in Mandarin the same applies. Adjectives never change, regardless of what they modify
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.
| English Adjectives | Chinese Adjectives |
|---|---|
| colors | yán sè - 颜色 |
| black | hēi sè - 黑色 |
| blue | lán sè - 蓝色 |
| brown | zōng sè - 棕色 |
| gray | huī sè - 灰色 |
| green | lǜ sè - 绿色 |
| orange | chéng sè - 橙色 |
| purple | zǐ sè - 紫色 |
| red | hóng sè - 红色 |
| white | bái sè - 白色 |
| yellow | huáng sè - 黄色 |
| sizes | chǐ cùn - 尺寸 |
| big | dà - 大 |
| deep | shēn - 深 |
| long | cháng;zhǎng - 长 |
| narrow | zhǎi - 窄 |
| short | duǎn;duān - 短 |
| small | xiǎo - 小 |
| tall | gāo - 高 |
| thick | hòu - 厚 |
| thin | bò;báo;bó - 薄 |
| wide | kuān - 宽 |
| shapes | xíng zhuàng - 形状 |
| circular | yuán de， yuán xíng de - 圆的，圆形的 |
| straight | zhí de， zhí xiàn de - 直的，直线的 |
| square | fāng xíng de - 方形的 |
| triangular | sān jiǎo xíng de - 三角形的 |
| tastes | wèi dào - 味道 |
| bitter | kǔ - 苦 |
| fresh | dàn - 淡 |
| salty | xián;xiān - 咸 |
| sour | suān - 酸 |
| spicy | là - 辣 |
| sweet | tián - 甜 |
| qualities | xìng zhì - 性质 |
| bad | huài - 坏 |
| clean | gān jìng - 干净 |
| dark | hēi àn - 黑暗 |
| difficult | kùn nán;kùn nan - 困难 |
| dirty | āng zàng - 肮脏 |
| dry | gān;gàn;hàn - 干 |
| easy | róng yì - 容易 |
| empty | kōng de - 空的 |
| expensive | áng guì - 昂贵 |
| fast | kuài - 快 |
| foreign | guó wài - 国外 |
| full | mǎn - 满 |
| good | hǎo;hào - 好 |
| hard | yìng - 硬 |
| heavy | zhòng;chóng - 重 |
| inexpensive | pián yí de - 便宜的 |
| light | qīng - 轻 |
| local | dāng dì - 当地 |
| new | xīn - 新 |
| noisy | cáo zá - 嘈杂 |
| old | lǎo - 老 |
| powerful | qiáng dà - 强大 |
| quiet | ān jìng - 安静 |
| correct | zhèng què - 正确 |
| slow | huǎn màn - 缓慢 |
| soft | ruǎn - 软 |
| very | hěn - 很 |
| weak | ruò - 弱 |
| wet | cháo shī - 潮湿 |
| wrong | cuò wù - 错误 |
| young | nián qīng - 年轻 |
| quantities | shù liàng - 数量 |
| few | hěn shǎo - 很少 |
| little | hěn shǎo - 很少 |
| many | xǔ duō - 许多 |
| much | xǔ duō - 许多 |
| part | bù fēn - 部分 |
| some | yī xiē - 一些 |
| a few | jǐ gě - 几个 |
| whole | zhěng gè - 整个 |
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