"我不是学生。"
Translation:I am not a student.
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Still learning how all of this works do the character break down as "I 我/ am not 不是/ a student 学生" ? Would I am a student be "I 我/ am是/ a student 学生" ?
Literally, wo (I) Shi (am) xue sheng (student). To stress you are A student, use yi ge 一个 (a). 我是一个学生
The 一 is not really required. You can remove it and it will still sound okay.
One of the answer choices is drunk. "I am not drunk" seems like an important think to learn to say.
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In an earlier sentence I had peeked at the meanings of each character & birth was joined with learn/study. I thought it was pretty cool that the word for student means the birth of learning. It made me very happy to figure out the birth of more words.
Some characters are used with other characters to make even more words. The original meaning of the character may or may not have something to do with the final meaning. Sometimes a character is added which has nothing to do with the meaning and the sound is similar to the final outcome, but not always. These characters are separate, but are both needed for the final English word "student" I was over thinking it and was guessing that student + birth would make a new student, but oh well! I have been reborn - now I am a student! I am curious as to the etymology of this use of the two characters together. Ah here we go, and it turns out that this is the simplified form: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%AD%A6%E7%94%9F https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F#Chinese
Is it a general standard that the preposition/passive verb comes after the active verb in the Chinese sentence structure? Verbatim this reads as "I NOT AM student '
This is correct word order for Chinese, but "am" is the only verb in the sentence, while "not" is an adverb that negates the verb. In Chinese, the negation does come before the verb.
I used the keyboard and it said write the answer in English so I did and then marked it wrong and said you should have written it in mandarin.
Dfghxvnff to the council permission to use your email address is no longer be fixed
"will be fixed" (future)
"was fixed" (past)
(is fixed) (currently or in the present, thie state is that it is fixed ,)
What council?
