Learn Chinese – learn Mandarin – How to say “My grandfather got a fever. One moment he felt cold, one moment he felt hot.” in Chinese: 我爷爷发烧,他一会儿觉得冷,一会儿觉得热。Wo3 ye2 ye5 fa1 shao1, ta1 yi4 hui3 er5 jue2 de5 leng3 yi4 hui3 er5 jue2 de5 re4.

Learn Chinese – learn Mandarin – How to say “My grandfather got a fever. One moment he felt cold, one moment he felt hot.” in Chinese: 我爷爷发烧,他一会儿觉得冷,一会儿觉得热。Wo3 ye2 ye5 fa1 shao1, ta1 yi4 hui3 er5 jue2 de5 leng3 yi4 hui3 er5 jue2 de5 re4. Wo3 (我 wo3 is wo3 de5 for short, means my) ye2 ye5 (爷爷 grandfather) fa1 shao1 (发烧 got a fever, fa1 means getting or developing; shao1 mean hot ( high temperature)) , ta1 (他 he) yi4 hui3 er5 (一会儿 a little while, yi4 is one, hui3 means moment, er5 is a habitual word after certain nouns. People in the northern China love to roll back their tongue and make er5 sound)jue2 de5 (觉得 fee) leng3 (冷cold) yi4 hui3 er5 (一会儿 a little while) jue2 de5 (觉得 feel) re4 (热 hot). There are two different grandfathers: the one on the maternal side is called wai4 gong1 外公, and the one on the paternal side is called ye2 ye5 爷爷.

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