Suggestive particle(!)

Survival Chinese Chapter 2 Lesson 3 Directions
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Okay guys, so this next character is one of my favorite ones. It's just another example are Chinese is so I don't know, logical. I will forever be a promoter and advocate of Chinese. Now we have ma from previous videos, ma was like a question mark but a verbal one. So you can say Felix Felix Ma, is that Felix? Now we're going to have ba okay.

And by the way, don't forget Nope, that is also a sort of asking how about this guy? How about this? And it's also a sort of verbal question mark that he put at the end of a sentence. So you can say Felix Now, what about Felix? Now the last thing that we're going to learn as well, which is also sort of like yeah, it's sort of like the last one, there's three of them, but they're also used, okay, so the last one here is okay, almost like math, but this one is but and but it sounds more like a let's do this. Let's do this guys.

And that's how we can translate it. Anytime you say let's in English, you can translate it loosely to BA in Chinese, but remember, you have to put it at the end of a sentence or of the statement. So you can say bye Basically, it's a suggestive particle, whereas mark is a question particle. And that then implying that ba is something that you want to happen. Okay? You're not asking if it will happen.

You're saying, let's do this guys. So you can use it whenever you want to go, for instance, let's go. Or let's watch that movie. Then you just finish your sentences with a bar instead. And it's fantastic. Trying actually in a funny sort of practice session here you can use this Martin bar and make him and put them into your English sentences.

As soon as you realize how much Martin Bach and help you along with your Chinese, you realize how many different things you can say and how useful and powerful these two words are? No. So let me just read you some examples. We can say thalma do you want to go but if we say thought there would be like let's go let's have a look at that. So huh? to one so bad stuff.

You can also say Yo Ma, would you want this? But you can say Yo ba as in you want this, don't you? Yo, yo man? Yeah. Oh, it's funny Yo, yo man. Yeah.

Oh it's funny yo haha

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