mā, má, mǎ, mà, ma Mandarin pinyin five tunes practice


Dear friends,

We will keep on the Mandarin pinyin practice, and the topic this time is about  mā, má, mǎ, mà, ma Mandarin five tunes practice with some characters and related words. It's always the best way to exercise your pinyin pronunciations with all different variations together in the same time. Please watch the following video lesson carefully:



the 1st tune:  mā



here are the Chinese character and related phrase:

mom

媽
mā

mama, mother
媽媽
mā ma


note: for the word 媽媽(mama, mother) the 2nd character is light tune, just like you speak the word "mama" in English.




the 2nd tune:  má



here are the Chinese character and related phrases:

numb

麻
má

numb; insensitive
麻木
má mù


麻(numb) + 木(wood)


Please check the analysis about the meaning of each unique character for this lesson:
http://www.chinese-word.com/lessons/lesson-66.html


the 3rd tune:  mǎ



here are the Chinese character and related phrase:

horse

馬
mǎ

horse riding
騎馬
qí mǎ


騎(ride) + 馬(horse)


the 4th tune:  mà



here are the Chinese character and related phrases:

scold, rebuke

罵
mà

bawl someone out
大罵
dà mà


大(big) + 罵(scold)

Please check the analysis about the meaning of each unique character for this lesson:

http://www.chinese-word.com/lessons/lesson-66.html



the light tune:  ma



here are the Chinese character and related phrases:


question tag
嗎
ma

note: the light tune for this character 嗎 is usually used at the end of an interrogative sentence, the pronunciation sometimes is the same as the 1st tune mā, but you don't need to worry about this kind of detail when speaking Mandarin. When this character 嗎 is put at the end of an interrogative sentence, you just use the 1st tune mā and the Chinese people will understand your words.

the example phrase:

How are you?
你好嗎
Nǐ hǎo ma


你(you) + 好(good) + 嗎(ending tag)


For more Chinese characters with the mā, má, mǎ, mà, ma five tune pronunciations, please check the following page from my database:


I think that's all for the lesson this time. Thanks for reading my blog article and please remember to subscribe my YouTube for encouragement. Thank you very much!


佳節愉快
Happy Holiday


Regards,

Andres Leo
Chinese Words Database





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