day 16money & numbers
unit 3 · food, shopping & funmoney & numbers
Buy by the jin, count money in 块 and 毛, say “altogether”, borrow and pay back, and compare amounts.
today’s words
- 斤 jīn · jin (half a kilo)
- 公斤 gōngjīn · kilogram
- 角 jiǎo · jiao (0.1 yuan)
- 毛 máo · mao (0.1 yuan, spoken); hair, fur
- 米 mǐ · metre
- 加 jiā · to add; plus
- 借 jiè · to borrow; to lend
- 还 huán · to give back, return
- 银行卡 yínhángkǎ · bank card
- 信用卡 xìnyòngkǎ · credit card
- 卡 kǎ · card
- 号码 hàomǎ · number (phone, room, seat)
- 一共 yīgòng · altogether, in total
- 以上 yǐshàng · above, more than
- 以下 yǐxià · below, under
- 差 chà · to be short of; poor, bad
- 刻 kè · quarter (of an hour)
- 所 suǒ · (measure word for schools, hospitals)
sentences
- 苹果五块钱一斤。 · Apples are five yuan a jin.
- 一块是十角，也是十毛。 · One yuan is ten jiao, or ten mao.
- 我比他早到了十分钟。 · I got there ten minutes earlier than him.
- 妹妹比我多吃了两个苹果。 · My little sister ate two more apples than me.
- 现在差一刻八点。 · It’s a quarter to eight.