Our expertise lies in understanding our clients’ needs for both travel and business, and turning these into a valuable, and enriching program. We are a Dutch, privately owned boutique agency that offers travel services and business consultancy. We call them Wow Sentences.Ni hao Helan 你好荷兰 means Hello Holland in Chinese. There are 4 general types of sentences:Įxclamations. You can use them as a layout to form any sentences you want. Since they are 28 altogether, I call them the blueprint for the Chinese language. After six years of gathering and researching, I have developed a formula that covers almost all kinds of common expressions. But this doesn’t mean the Chinese language has no rules to form sentences. There is no tense, no cases (I or me, he or him), nothing that you would consider as grammar. In Chinese, you don’t have grammar in this sense. Putting “Do” at the beginning of a sentence is not always part of grammar, but it’s essential for correct usage in English. However, if the language is not very close to English, forming sentences works entirely differently. When I learned German, I understood it’s the same as in English.
#NI HAO MEANING HOW TO#
For those whose native languages are close to English, such as German, French, Spanish, etc., it is not necessary to learn special rules of how to ask a question. In English, you first learn the alphabet, and then vocabulary, then grammar to form sentences. Unfortunately, this is not a common expression in Chinese. If you now understand that nihao (you good) actually stands for I wish you good, the structure becomes more clear. How nihao, nihao ma, and wo hen hao build the first blueprint together. Using this, you will be able to form almost every kind of sentence, without doubting if the sentence is correct. wo hen hao literal meaningĪnd I think it’s the perfect time to introduce the blueprint: 28 ways of expressions in Chinese. You answer with wo hen hao, which means I’m fine. Now, the answer to nihao ma (or ni hao ma) is also similar. nihao ma literal meaningĪnd this raises the next question, again: How do you answer to nihao and nihao ma?įirst, the answer to nihao is also nihao, just like the answer to Hello is also Hello. And adding a “ma” behind nihao makes it to a question: How are you. So this raises the next question: What does ni hao ma mean?Īs mentioned, people had the intention of asking “ How are you?” when they meet. Hence, there is a hidden meaning I wish you good behind it. Today people use it to greet each other without the hidden question. So it’s much closer to the English expression “How are you?”. (If you can read and understand Chinese, Zhihu has an interesting post about it.) And the first time the person used it meant it as a question: “you (are) good, right?”. I did some research and found out the first time “nihao” appeared in Chinese is the time between 1736 – 1765. If you have read my blog Hello in Chinese, you probably would know that nihao literally means: you good. That’s why I decided to use nihao to introduce our blueprint method to learn Chinese efficiently. But it is also a perfect example to showcase different sentence types in Chinese. Ni hao has almost become common sense today: It means Hello in Chinese.
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