Intensifying with "duo"

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 ！ Wàimian duō shūfu! It's so nice outside!
• 多 好 ！ Duō hǎo! That's great!
• 这 种 啤酒 多 好喝 ！ Zhè zhǒng píjiǔ duō hǎohē! This kind of beer tastes great!
• 你 看 这 个 地方 ， 多 美 ！ Nǐ kān zhè gè dìfang, duō měi! Look at this place, it is so beautiful!
• 学 中文 多 有 意思 ！ Xué zhōngwén duō yǒu yìsi! Studying Chinese is so interesting!
• 你 穿 这么 少 ， 多 冷 啊 ！ Nǐ chuān zhème shǎo, duō lěng a! You are wearing so few clothes, you must be so cold!
• 他们 每天 工作 十 二 个 小时 ， 多 累 ！ Tāmen měitiān gōngzuò shí èr gè xiǎoshí, duō lèi! They work twelve hours every day, they must be so tired!
• 这样 做 多 不 方便 ！ Zhèyàng zuò duō bù fāngbiàn! This is so inconvenient!
• 这 个 游戏 多 好玩 ！ Zhè gè yóuxì duō hǎowán! This game is so much fun!
• 这 个 房子 离 地铁 站 很 近 ， 多 方便 ！ Zhè gè fángzi lí dìtiě zhàn hěn jìn, duō fāngbiàn! This apartment is very close to the metro, it's so convenient!
• 多 好吃 ！ Duō hǎochī! It is so delicious!
• 汉字 多 难 ！ 我 不 学 。 Hànzì duō nán! Wǒ bù xué. 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 put 很 (hěn) in 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", therefore these two words can easily be interchanged as desired without changing the meaning.

See also

• Adjectives with "name" and "zheme"
• Positive adjectives with "-ji le"
• Asking about degree with "duo"

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