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Usage 1 - "pork":
Sentence:
在中国,大家都喜欢吃猪肉。
English:
In China, everyone likes to eat pork.
Top-Down Words:
大家 dàjiā - everyone
都 dōu - every, all
喜欢 xǐhuān - to like
*Sentence:
然后我说只吃猪肉的话,长大以后就会长成一只猪。
English:
Then I said if you only eat pork, you will grow up to be a pig.
Top-Down Words:
成 chéng - to become, to prove to be
就 jiù - (expressing condition “then”)
*Sentence:
我和你一样是人,所以是变不成猪的!
English:
I'm a human being like you so I can't turn into a pig.
Top-Down Words:
所以 suǒyǐ - so, as a result
成 chéng - to become, to prove to be
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Annette Bicknell
然后我说只吃猪肉的话,长大以后就会长成一只猪。I see 只 before 猪 at the very end as a measure word for animals like we previously used for a dog, but you had 头 as a measure word specifically for larger animals in sentence 我在门口见到一头猪。哪儿跑出来的?Is is flexible as to which measure word to use?
Mandarin Blueprint
Correct. I imagine that pigs are on the border between what people think of as small and large animals, hence why they sometimes get 只 and sometimes 头 as their measure words.
Annette Bicknell
谢谢你, good to know.
MB Team
This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBPqr2ePbY&t=3081s