How to Reduplicate Verbs in Chinese

Feb 2

In Chinese, we can use reduplicated verbs to express something happen "briefly" or "a little bit."

Sub + Verb Verb +（Obj）

Nǐ shìshì.

你试试.

You try a bit.

Nǐ kànkàn zhè běn shū.

你看看这本书。

You take a look at this book.

We can also use another way to reduplicate verbs, that is, to put 一 yī in the structure.

Wǒ xiǎng gēn nǐ liáo yī liáo guānyú qù zhōngguó lǚyóu de jìhuà.

我想跟你聊一聊关于去中国旅游的计划。

I want to chat with you a bit about the plan to travel to China .

Nǐ kěyǐ wèn yī wèn lǎoshī wèishénme zhòngwén hěn nán xuéhǎo ma?

你可以问一问老师为什么中文很难学好吗？

Can you ask teacher why Chinese is difficult to learn well?

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Evan Chiles