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你 meaning in Chinese
nǐ
Without tone marks: ni
Listen to 你
you
pronoun
How to use 你
你 means you when speaking to one person. 你们 addresses several people, while 您 is a respectful singular form. 你的 means your or yours. The tone of 你 changes in connected speech before another third tone, as in 你好.
Everyday examples
你叫什么名字？
Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?
What is your name?
这是你的书吗？
Zhè shì nǐ de shū ma?
Is this your book?
Dayword examples
Example
你好吗？
nǐ hǎo ma?
How are you?
Dayword example
English glosses are adapted from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences are written by Dayword or taken from Tatoeba contributors under CC BY 2.0 FR, with a link on each Tatoeba sentence.
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