Phrasebook Entry #1
Started thinking about how to create interesting, relatively frequent updates that are actually useful. So, I decided that doing an on-going number of posts about how to say certain things in Chinese, along with little bits of information regarding the words, would be handy. Let’s begin!
今天早上我一起床就煮了一壺咖啡
jīntiān zǎo shàng wǒ yīqǐ chuáng jiù zhǔ le yī hú kāfēi
When I woke up this morning, I made a pot of coffee.
- 早上 is used to mean “early morning”
- 就 means “at once, right away”, in this case it’s really closer to “immediately”
- 煮 is a verb meaning to boil or cook, in this case to boil the 咖啡
- 壺 is a counter used for bottled liquid (the pot of coffee), hence “一壺咖啡” means “a pot of coffee” (literally “one pot coffee”)
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