Yoyo Chinese 34 (zěnmeyàng, quán, běnlái）

Question 1

How was your vacation?

Answer 1

Jiàqī guò de zěnmeyàng?

Question 2

How was your day today?

Answer 2

Jīntiān guò de zěnmeyàng

Question 3

How was dinner?

Answer 3

Wǎnfàn chī de zěnmeyàng？

Question 4

How was the meeting?

Answer 4

Huì kāi de zěnmeyàng？

Question 5

There wasn’t enough time

Answer 5

Shíjiān bú gòu le
*even though this describes something that happens in the past, you use bù not méi, bc you always use bù to negate stative verbs (aka adjectives)

Question 6

Just ok / not bad / pretty good

Answer 6

Háixíng

Question 7

Originally wanted to go

Answer 7

Běnlái xiǎng qù

No past tense for certain verbs, including “want”

Question 8

What did you do?

Answer 8

Nǐ zuò le shénme?
Nǐ zuò shénme le?
*with simple objects, le can go either right after the verb or at the end of the sentence

Question 9

Did you go? (Use verb-not-verb structure, two ways)

Answer 9

Nǐ qù méi qù？

Nǐ yǒu méi yǒu qù？

Question 10

Originally, I didn’t like to eat sushi, but now I love it

Answer 10

Wǒ běnlái bù xǐhuān chī shòusī, kěshì xiànzài fēicháng xǐhuān le.

Question 11

The whole world

Answer 11

Quán shì jiè

Question 12

I just came back from Beijing

Answer 12

Wǒ gāng (gāng) cóng běijīng húilái

Question 13

Our whole family went to Beijing to travel/sight-see

Answer 13

Wǒmen quán jiā qù běijīng lǚyóu le

Question 14

Chinese people like to have the whole family together for a meal at Chinese New Year

Answer 14

Chūn jié de shíhou, zhōngguórén xǐhuān quán jiā yìqǐ chīfàn

Question 15

Our whole family likes to play soccer

Answer 15

Wǒmen quán jiārén dōu xǐhuān tī zúqiú

Question 16

Originally we wanted to go, but it rained on that day

Answer 16

Wǒmen běnlái xiǎng qù, dànshì nà tiān xiàyǔ le

Question 17

There are cars everywhere!

Answer 17

Dào chù dōu yǒu qìchē

Note dào chù means everywhere, but unlike nǎlǐ dōu，it often refers to “everywhere” within a specific place

Question 18

I sprained my foot

Lit my foot twisted

Answer 18

Wǒ jiǎo niǔ le

Question 19

So, you didn’t go anywhere?

Answer 19

Suǒyǐ nǐ nǎlǐ dōu méi qù？

Question 20

Are you a little better now?

Answer 20

Xiànzài hǎo diǎn le ma?

Question 21

Let’s leave a little later

Answer 21

Wǒmen wǎn yìdiǎn zǒu ba

Question 22

Much better now

Answer 22

Xiànzài hǎo duō le