Intensifying with "duo"
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One of the ways to intensify a sentence and make it an exclamation is to 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 can be compared to 很 in this case. As you can see, if you put 很 in instead of 多, the meaning is basically the same. The exact meaning of 很 is "very"and the exact meaning of 多 is "a lot", therefore these two words can easily be interchanged as desired without changing the meaning.
See also
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
