Mandarin Grammar

The Mandarin grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Mandarin and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: 和  [hé]	Under: 在...下  [zài...xià]
Before: 在...前  [zài...qián]	After: 在 ...后  [zài ...hòu]
Inside: 在…里面  [zài... lǐ miàn]	Outside: 外  [wài]
With: 和…在一起  [hé... zài yī qǐ]	But: 但是  [dàn shì]
For: 为了  [wèi le]	From: 从…起  [cōng...qǐ]
To: 至  [zhì]	In: 在…里  [zài...lǐ]

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: 什么？  [shén mē?]	Who?: 谁？  [shuí?]
How?: 怎么样？  [zěn me yàng?]	Why?: 为什么？  [wèi shén me?]
Where?: 哪里？  [nǎ lǐ?]

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: 从不  [cóng bù]	Rarely: 很少  [hěn shǎo]
Sometimes: 有时  [yǒu shí]	Usually: 通常  [tōng cháng]
Always: 总是  [zǒng shì]	Very: 很  [hěn]

Most commonly used pronouns in Mandarin:

I: 我  [wǒ]	You: 你  [nǐ]
He: 他  [tā]	She: 她  [tā]
We: 我们  [wǒ men]	They: 他们  [tā men]

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: 我的  [wǒ de]	Your: 您的  [nín de]
His: 他的  [tā de]	Her: 她的  [tā de]
Our: 我们的  [wǒ men de]	Their: 他们的  [tā men de]

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: 我讲英文  [wǒ jiǎng yīng wén]

You speak French: 你讲法语  [nǐ jiǎng fǎ yǔ]

He speaks German: 他说德语  [tā shuō;shuì dé yǔ]

She speaks Italian: 她讲意大利语  [tā jiǎng yì dà lì yǔ]

I visited France: 我访问了法国  [wǒ fǎng wèn le fǎ guó]

I will drink milk: 我会喝牛奶  [wǒ huì hē niú nǎi]

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: 我理解你  [wǒ lǐ jiě nǐ]

I don't understand you: 我不明白你  [wǒ bù míng bái nǐ]

I don't speak French: 我不会说法语  [wǒ bù huì shuō fǎ yǔ]

This is my house: 这是我的家  [zhè shì wǒ de jiā]

That restaurant is far: 那个餐厅远  [nà gè cān tīng yuǎn]

No problem: 没有问题的  [méi yǒu wèn tí de]

The above Mandarin grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Mandarin vocabulary to obtain some popular Mandarin phrases.