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I see friend

我看见朋友。

wǒ kàn jiàn péng you

Natural English

I see a friend.

A visual-perception sentence with a Person object.

Sentence Category Family and People
Sentence Type Standardized Expression
Level Basic

Token Mapping

  1. 1
    English Token
    I
    Chinese Unit
    我
    Pinyin
    wǒ
    Linked Word
    I - 我
  2. 2
    English Token
    see
    Chinese Unit
    看见
    Pinyin
    kàn jiàn
    Linked Word
    see - 看见
  3. 3
    English Token
    friend
    Chinese Unit
    朋友
    Pinyin
    péng you
    Linked Word
    friend - 朋友

Sentence Structure

Chinese Order
我 / 看见 / 朋友
Chinglish Order
I / see / friend
Natural English Order
I see a friend.

Sentence Analysis

A visual-perception sentence with a Person object.

Sentence Analysis

我 / 看见 / 朋友 stays I / see / friend. Natural English adds an article, but that article is not a Chinese semantic unit and is not stored as a Chinglish token.

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Standard Notes

Standard Status
Standard
Usage Context
Official Batch 002 candidate for manual editorial review.
Comprehensibility
Understandable with context

Related Words

I 我 wǒ see 看见 kàn jiàn friend 朋友 péng you