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早饭 in Context

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早饭

Usage 1 - "breakfast": 

Sentence:

早上好,你吃早饭了么?  

English:

Good morning, have you eaten breakfast?


Sentence:

你早饭吃了什么?  

English:

What did you eat for breakfast? 


Sentence:

我的早饭是牛奶和面包.

English:

My breakfast is milk and bread.

Top-Down Words:

牛奶 niúnǎi - milk 


*Sentence:

早饭最好在早上8点左右吃。

English:

Breakfast is best eaten around eight in the morning.

Top-Down Words:

左右 zuǒyòu - approximately, around


*Sentence:

不管吃不吃晚饭,反正早饭一定要吃好,这样,身体才能好。

English:

Regardless of whether you eat dinner or not, be sure to have a good breakfast. Only then can you be healthy.

Top-Down Words:

不管 bùguǎn - no matter
晚饭 wǎnfàn - dinner



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Comments   5

Jason Pon

早上好,你吃早饭了么

Why is 么 used to pose the interrogative here? Shouldn't it be 妈?

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Mandarin Blueprint

么 & 吗 are interchangeable, but 么 is SUPER spoken. It's a natural result of lazy speech patterns, haha.

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MB Team

This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_26ZdTpzcNs&t=615s

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Melissa Niesen 😊🤝 倪茉莉

This kind of blows my mind! Both are so common and I've used them for so long, but I didn't realize 么 could be used like this. I guess it's a little hard to hear the difference, though. Would you say this is more spoken than written?

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Mandarin Blueprint

Yes, definitely more colloquial.

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