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点菜 in Context

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点菜

Usage 1 - "to order food"

*Sentence:

有的人会去中国饭店,然后想自己点菜。

English:

Some people might go to a Chinese restaurant and order food themselves.

Top-Down Words:

饭店 fàndiàn - restaurant



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Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Billy Blithersunson

有的人会去中国饭店 - what is the use of 的 in this sentence? Is it to make 有人 a plural?

Mandarin Blueprint

有的 just means "some", most commonly used with the word 人 to mean "some people". It's actually a compound word, athough it seems like the 有 and the 的 are separate.

MB Team

 This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYhT1gXaDNM&t=5168s

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Jason Pon

Is saying 有的人 in 有的人会去中国饭店,然后想自己点菜 simnilar to 有些人, both meaning 'some people'.

Similar to Billy's question in the archives.

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Mandarin Blueprint

Here's a reply for you, Jason:
https://www.loom.com/share/242dfce6ab6f4b88a91d0d6ef2431823

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Micaela Ellison

So just to further complicate the question, based on this continuum of specificity, would 某些人 fit somewhere between your example of "those three people over there" and 有些人?

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Mandarin Blueprint

No real difference between 某些人 and 有些人, other than 有些人 being a lot more common.

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