Sentence Composition
| 1 | 湯姆 | Tāngmǔ | Tom (name) |
| 2 | 問 | wèn | to ask; to inquire |
| 3 | 瑪麗 | Mǎlì |
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| 4 | 她 | tā | she |
| 5 | 媽 | mā |
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| 6 | 在 | zài |
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| =7 | 哪 | nǎ |
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| =7 | 哪 | na | (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊 a after a word ending in "n") |
| =7 | 哪 | né |
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| =7 | 哪 | něi | which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier) |