Moderating positive adjectives with "hai"

Structure

As well as continuation, 还 (hái) can also be used to weaken positive adjectives. This is similar to saying "quite" or "reasonably" in English.

Subject + 还 + Adjective

Examples

• 我 还 好。
• 这 个 啤酒 还 行。
• 那 个 乐队 还 可以。

See also

• Continuation with "hai"
• Expressing "rather" with "bijiao"
• The "zui" superlative

Sources and further reading

Books

• Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 (pp. 302) →buy
• Exemplification of Common Sentence Patterns in Spoken Chinese (pp. 106-7) →buy