day 29mail & messages
unit 5 · school & workmail & messages
Send and receive emails and letters, take a call, and say “from … on” and “until”.
today’s words
- 邮件 yóujiàn · email; mail
- 邮箱 yóuxiāng · inbox, email address; mailbox
- 信 xìn · letter; to believe
- 封 fēng · measure word for letters
- 发 fā · to send
- 收到 shōudào · to receive
- 接 jiē · to answer (a call); to pick up
- 查 chá · to check, look up
- 主要 zhǔyào · main, chief
- 发展 fāzhǎn · to develop, grow
- 行 xíng · OK, all right; capable
- 直到 zhídào · until
- 安全 ānquán · safe
- 起 qǐ · to rise; from (with 从)
sentences
- 从下个月起，我要天天发邮件。 · From next month on, I’ll have to send emails every day.
- 你收到我的邮件了吗？ · Did you get my email?
- 我给奶奶写了一封信。 · I wrote Grandma a letter.
- 邮箱里有三十封邮件，我还没查。 · There are thirty emails in my inbox, and I haven’t checked them yet.
- 直到晚上十点，他才回我的邮件。 · He didn’t reply to my email until ten at night.