Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/吗-ma

Learn one Chinese Character a day.

Today you will learn the following Chinese character:

吗 (ma), the interrogative final particle.

吧 (ma) is one of the most common particles in Chinese. A particle means it goes on the end of a sentense.

It is used to ask questions. You will learn how to use it correctly in the examples below.

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The particle 吧 is placed on the end of question which can only be answered with a “yes” or a “no”.

Here are some quick example:

• 你饿吗？

Nǐ è ma? Are you hungry?

• 你要去上海吗？

Nǐ yào qù Shànghǎi ma? Are you going to go to Shanghai?

• 你是中国人吗？

Nǐ shì zhōngguórén ma? Are you Chinese?

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