Practice using 会 (huì) to talk about future actions
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| Do you know how to talk about future actions in Chinese? |
| Welcome to Three Step Chinese Practice by ChineseClass101.com. In this lesson, you'll practice using 会 (huì) to talk about future actions. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| 谢谢你的食物！好好吃。(Xièxie nǐ de shíwù! Hǎohǎo chī.) |
| "Thank you for the food! It's so tasty." |
| 不用谢。丽莎，你暑假会做什么？(Bùyòng xiè. Lìshā, nǐ shǔjià huì zuò shénme?) |
| "You're welcome. Lisha, what will you do during summer vacation?" |
| 我和一些朋友会去青岛。(Wǒ hé yìxiē péngyǒu huì qù Qīngdǎo.) |
| "Some friends and I will go to Qingdao." |
| 哦？你会去旅游吗？不会去找工作吗？(Ó? Nǐ huì qù lǚyóu ma? Bú huì qù zhǎo gōngzuò ma?) |
| "Oh? Are you going to travel? Not looking for a job?" |
| In this lesson, we focused on using the word 会 (huì), meaning "will," to talk about future actions. |
| The basic structure is: Subject + (Time) + 会/不会 + Verb (+ Object) |
| For example, in the sentence 我和一些朋友会去青岛 (Wǒ hé yìxiē péngyǒu huì qù Qīngdǎo), we're saying "Some friends and I will go to Qingdao." |
| If we want to say someone won't do something, we simply add 不 before 会 to make 不会 (bù huì), like in |
| 不会去找工作吗？ (Bú huì qù zhǎo gōngzuò ma?), which means "Not looking for a job?" |
| Adding 吗 (ma) to the end turns the sentence into a yes–no question. |
| We can also use this pattern to ask open questions, by ending with 什么 (shénme), meaning "what." |
| For instance, 你暑假会做什么 (Nǐ shǔjià huì zuò shénme?) means "What will you do during summer vacation?" |
| These structures let us describe and ask about future plans in a simple and natural way. |
| Let's practice this grammar in this episode! |
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