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做饭 in Context

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做饭

Usage 1 - "to cook": 

Sentence:

我告诉先生下班后记得回家做饭,因为我还要加班。

English: 

I told my husband to make dinner after work because I had to work overtime.

Top-Down Words:

告诉 gàosu - to tell, to inform
先生 xiānsheng - mister, sir, husband
家 jiā - home
 


Sentence:

我做饭很好吃

English:

My cooking is very good.


*Sentence:

你会做饭吗?

English:

Can you cook?



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Comments   2

Micaela Ellison

Trying not to overthink the grammar but ... the placement and translation of 做饭 in this sentence 我做饭很好吃 implies that 做饭 can be used as a noun. If I was trying to say this myself, my inclination would be to say something wordier like 我做得很好吃 or 我做很好吃的菜 because my understanding is that 做饭 is only a verb.

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Mandarin Blueprint

I think what's really happening here is that the speaker is saying "我做(的)饭很好吃," but is just leaving out the 的 because the context is clear enough.

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