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买 in Context

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The Character You Just Learned is Also a Common Word!

Usage 1 - "to buy": 

Sentence

我想买这本笔记本。

English:

I want to buy this notebook.

Top-Down Words:

笔记本 bǐjìběn - notebook


*Sentence

大家把东西买回家以后,发现自己被骗了。

English:

After people brought home what they bought, they found out they had been deceived.

Top-Down Words:

把 bǎ - (used to shift the object to before the verb, which must be reduplicated or accompanied by some other word of expression)
骗 piàn - to lie


*Sentence:

回家的车票买了吗?

English:

Did you buy the (train/bus/plane) ticket home?

Top-Down Words:

车票 chēpiào - fare


*Sentence:

因为快过年了,车票越来越难买了。

English:

Because soon it will be the Chinese New Year, (train/bus/plane) tickets are getting harder to buy.

Top-Down Words:

车票 chēpiào - fare
过年 - celebrate Spring Festival
难 nán - difficult
越来越 yuèláiyuè - increasingly


*Sentence:

要是你没买的话,得快去买了。

English:

If you haven't bought it, you'd better hurry up and buy it.


*Sentence:

那你的车票买到了吗?

English:

So did you get a ticket?

Top-Down Words:

车票 chēpiào - fare


*Sentence:

而且还不用担心买不到票。

English:

And you won't have to worry about not getting a ticket.

Top-Down Words:

而且 érqiě - also
票 piào - ticket



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Comments   2

Andy Williams

发现自己被骗了. Do you have some suggestion to understand the 被骗? I see in Pleco that 被 can be a preposition to introduce the doer of an action or the action. How does this work in this example? Thanks, Andy

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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=sti0orPioGI&t=4663s

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