Sentence Composition
| =1 | 先生 | xiānsheng |
classifier: 位 |
| =1 | 先生 | xiānshēng |
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| 2 | 您 | nín | you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你 nǐ) |
| 3 | 在 | zài |
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| 4 | 找 | zhǎo |
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| =5 | 甚 | shén | variant of 什 shén |
| =5 | 甚 | shèn |
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| =6 | 麼 | má | exclamatory final particle |
| =6 | 麼 | ma | interrogative final particle |
| =6 | 麼 | me | suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼 shénme, what?, indefinite 這麼 zhème thus, etc |
| =6 | 麼 | mó |
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| =7 | 呀 | yā |
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| =7 | 呀 | ya | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) |