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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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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?
Mandarin Blueprint
么 & 吗 are interchangeable, but 么 is SUPER spoken. It's a natural result of lazy speech patterns, haha.
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
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?
Mandarin Blueprint
Yes, definitely more colloquial.