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day 31prices and dumplings

unit 5 · food & shopping

    prices and dumplings

    Shop for clothes and order noodles and dumplings, give a formal reason with 由於 and describe changing minds with 一會兒……一會兒…… / 一下……一下…….

    today’s words

    • 襯衫 chènshān · shirt
    • 免費 miǎnfèi · free (of charge)
    • 價格 jiàgé · price
    • 價錢 jiàqián · price (spoken)
    • 購買 gòumǎi · purchase, buy (formal)
    • 顧客 gùkè · customer
    • 米粉 mǐfěn · rice noodles, rice vermicelli
    • 白菜 báicài · Chinese cabbage
    • 紅豆 hóngdòu · red bean(s)
    • 奶 nǎi · milk
    • 水餃 shuǐjiǎo · boiled dumplings
    • 麵條 miàntiáo · noodles
    • 由於 yóuyú · owing to, because of (formal)
    • 或許 huòxǔ · perhaps, maybe
    • 加強 jiāqiáng · strengthen, step up
    • 寬 kuān · wide, loose
    • 實際 shíjì · real, actual, practical
    • 特色 tèsè · special feature, character

    sentences

    • 天氣一會兒冷一會兒熱。 · The weather keeps switching between cold and hot.
    • 由於下大雨,今天的顧客很少。 · Because of the heavy rain, there were few customers today.
    • 這件襯衫的價錢不貴。 · This shirt isn’t expensive.
    • 這家店的水餃很有特色。 · This shop’s dumplings are really distinctive.
    • 買一碗麵條,免費送一碗紅豆湯。 · Buy a bowl of noodles and get a free bowl of red bean soup.