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One way to intensify a sentence is to make it an exclamation. To do this, you can use 多 (duō). It's really exciting! | One way to intensify a sentence is to make it an exclamation. To do this, you can use 多 (duō). It's really exciting! | ||
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As well as [[Asking about degree with "duo"|asking about degree]], you can also use 多 (duō) to intensify adjectives. | As well as [[Asking about degree with "duo"|asking about degree]], you can also use 多 (duō) to intensify adjectives. | ||
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One way to intensify a sentence is to make it an exclamation. To do this, you can use 多 (duō). It's really exciting!
Structure
As well as asking about degree, you can also use 多 (duō) to intensify adjectives.
Subject + 多 + Adjective !
Examples
- 外面 多 舒服 ！ It's so nice outside!
- 多 好 ！ That's great!
- 这 种 啤酒 多 好喝 ！ This kind of beer tastes great!
- 你 看 这 个 地方 ， 多 美 ！ Look at this place, it is so beautiful!
- 学 中文 多 有 意思 ！ Studying Chinese is so interesting!
- 你 穿 这么 少 ， 多 冷 啊 ！ You are wearing so few clothes, you must be so cold!
- 他们 每天 工作 十 二 个 小时 ， 多 累 ！ They work twelve hours every day, they must be so tired!
- 这样 做 多 不 方便 ！ This is so inconvenient!
- 这 个 游戏 多 好玩 ！ This game is so much fun!
- 这 个 房子 离 地铁 站 很 近 ， 多 方便 ！ This apartment is very close to the metro, it's so convenient!
- 多 好吃 ！ It is so delicious!
- 汉字 多 难 ！ 我 不 学 。 Chinese characters are so difficult! I don't study them.
多 (duō) can be compared to 很 (hěn) in this case. As you can see, if you use 很 (hěn) instead of 多 (duō), the meaning is basically the same. The exact meaning of 很 (hěn) is "very"and the exact meaning of 多 (duō) is "a lot." These two words can easily be interchanged as desired without changing the meaning.
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Sources and further reading
- Boya Chinese Elementary Starter 1 (博雅汉语初经起步篇) (p. 211) →buy
- 发展汉语 中级汉语口语上 (p. 72)
- Chinese: An Essential Grammar, Second Edition (pp. 199) →buy
