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#CHINESELESSON - Adjectives in Chinese
 



Learning the Chinese Adjectives displayed below is vital to the language. Chinese Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.
An adjective in Chinese is formed by adding the character for bulls eye "de" at the end of a noun, but it can also be placed after a whole sentence making the whole sentence as a adjective, Chinese use this structure to constructed a relative sentence.
 
English Adjectives Chinese Adjectives
adjectives xíng róng cí  - 形容
a green tree yī kē  lǜ sè de shù  - 一棵绿色的
a tall building yī zuò  gāo lóu  - 一座高楼
a very old man yī gè hěn  lǎo de rén  - 一个很老的人
the old red house lǎo hóng  fáng zi  - 房子
a very nice friend yī gè  fēi cháng hǎo de  péng yǒu  - 一个非常好的朋友

While in English an adjective doesn’t change when the noun changes, in Mandarin the same applies.  Adjectives never change, regardless of what they modify.

List of Adjectives in Chinese

Below is a list of the Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes in Chinese placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Chinese vocabulary.

English Adjectives Chinese Adjectives
colors yán sè  -
black hēi sè  - 黑色
blue lán sè  -
brown zōng sè  - 棕色
gray huī sè  - 灰色
green lǜ sè  - 绿
orange chéng sè  - 橙色
purple zǐ sè  - 紫色
red hóng sè  -
white bái sè  - 白色
yellow huáng sè  - 黄色
   
sizes chǐ cùn  - 尺寸
big dà  -
deep shēn  -
long cháng;zhǎng  -
narrow zhǎi  -
short duǎn;duān  -
small xiǎo  -
tall gāo  -
thick hòu  -
thin bò;báo;bó  -
wide kuān  -
   
shapes xíng zhuàng  - 形状
circular yuán de, yuán xíng de  - 圆的,圆形
straight zhí de, zhí xiàn de  - 直的,直线
square fāng xíng de  - 方形的
triangular sān jiǎo xíng de  - 三角形的
   
tastes wèi dào  - 味道
bitter kǔ  -
fresh dàn  -
salty xián;xiān  -
sour suān  -
spicy là  -
sweet tián  -
   
qualities xìng zhì  -
bad huài  -
clean gān jìng  -
dark hēi àn  - 黑暗
difficult kùn nán;kùn nan  -
dirty āng zàng  - 肮脏
dry gān;gàn;hàn  -
easy róng yì  - 容易
empty kōng de  - 空的
expensive áng guì  -
fast kuài  -
foreign guó wài  - 国外
full mǎn  -
good hǎo;hào  -
hard yìng  -
heavy zhòng;chóng  -
inexpensive pián yí de  - 便宜的
light qīng  -
local dāng dì  - 当地
new xīn  -
noisy cáo zá  -
old lǎo  -
powerful qiáng dà  -
quiet ān jìng  - 安静
correct zhèng què  - 正确
slow huǎn màn  -
soft ruǎn  -
very hěn  -
weak ruò  -
wet cháo shī  - 潮湿
wrong cuò wù  - 错误
young nián qīng  -
   
quantities shù liàng  - 数量
few hěn shǎo  - 很少
little hěn shǎo  - 很少
many xǔ duō  -
much xǔ duō  -
part bù fēn  - 部分
some yī xiē  - 一些
a few jǐ gě  - 几个
whole zhěng gè  - 整个
 

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