Chinese Adjectives

Chinese adjectives (形容词, xíngróngcí) differ from those in English because they can be used as verbs. For example, "天黑了 tiān hēi le" means "The sky has become dark". Language experts sometimes prefer to use the terms static or stative verb to describe them.

• After nouns


• Noun + 很 + Adjective

• The noun in this structure is the subject of the sentence. Sometimes the 很 (hěn) in this structure is translated as "very", but often it is just a way to link a noun to an adjective.Unlike English, subjects and predicate adjectives in a Chinese sentence are not linked by copula but by degree adverbs, such as 很 hěn "very," 好 hǎo "highly," 真 zhēn "really," and 非常 fēicháng "extraordinarily, extremely." For example, the following sentences express increasing degrees of "beauty":

• 她tā 很hěn 漂亮piàoliang。
• She is beautiful. （很 often functions as a dummy linking adverb and does not carry the meaning of "very". In this case, 她很漂亮 is often understood and translated as "She is beautiful".）

• 她tā 好hǎo 漂亮piàoliang。
• She is very beautiful.

• 她tā 真zhēn 漂亮piàoliang。
• She is really beautiful.

• 她tā 非常fēicháng 漂亮piàoliang。
• She is extraordinarily beautiful.

• Subject + Positive adjective + 极了
• A complementary adverb (e.g. 极了 jí le) can also specify the degree of an adjective:

• 她tā 漂亮piàoliang 极jí 了le　（她漂亮極了）。
• She is exceedingly beautiful.

• Subject + Negative adjective + 死了
• Besides, in colloquial Chinese the pattern "AA死了" (sǐ le, literally "to death") or "AA死BB了" is sometimes used in exaggeration to highlight the extent of influence, where AA is an adjective and BB is the thing being affected. Examples include

• "饿死了" (饿 è = hungry) - meaning "[I feel] so hungry [to the extent that I cannot bear any more]"
• "热死了" (热 rè = hot) - meaning "It's so hot [to the extent that I cannot bear any more]"
• "热死我了" - meaning "I feel so hot [to the extent that I cannot bear any more]"

• Noun + 是 + Adj + 的
• The linking verb 是 shì (to be) is used with adjectives in the pattern—Noun + 是 + Adj + 的—to state or emphasize a fact or a perceived fact. For example:

Yugang LI

他tā 是shì 男nán 的de。

He is male.

那nà 辆liàng 车chē 是shì 新xīn 的de　（那輛車是新的）。

That car is new.

那nà 只zhī 猫māo 是shì 黑hēi 的de（那隻貓是黑的）。

That cat is black.

• Before nouns
• When a noun is modified using an adjective, the associative particle 的 de is inserted between the adjective and the noun. For example, 高兴的孩子 gāo xìng de hái zi"happy child". 

• 奇怪qíguài 的de 人rén — "strange person"
• 可爱kěài 的de 熊猫xióngmāo （可愛的熊貓）— "cute panda"

Please correct the following sentences:
1)   他是高。He's tall.
2）今天极冷了。Today is extremely cold.
3）她可爱非常。She's very cute.
4）他是一个聪明学生。He is a smart student.
5）那件衬衫是红色。That shirt is red.
6)   那个蓝色帽子漂亮。That blue cap is beautiful.
7)   这个笔记本电脑重。This computer is heavy.

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Please watch this video. Zony and Yony taught Ellen two sentences in Chinese at 1:30. Do you know what they said, what they mean, and what their functions are? (To view the subtitles, click on CC at the bottom right of the video area. )





Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_adjectives
http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page