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Food few

食物很少。

shí wù hěn shǎo

Natural English

There is little food.

A noun followed by a low-quantity state.

Sentence Category Basic States
Sentence Type Standardized Expression
Level Basic

Token Mapping

  1. 1
    English Token
    food
    Chinese Unit
    食物
    Pinyin
    shí wù
    Linked Word
    food - 食物
  2. 2
    English Token
    few
    Chinese Unit
    很少
    Pinyin
    hěn shǎo
    Linked Word
    few - 很少

Sentence Structure

Chinese Order
食物 / 很少
Chinglish Order
food / few
Natural English Order
There is little food.

Sentence Analysis

A noun followed by a low-quantity state.

Sentence Analysis

食物 / 很少 maps to Food / few as a Chinese state description. Natural English introduces there is and little; those words are not part of the canonical Chinglish sequence.

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Standard Notes

Standard Status
Standard
Usage Context
Official candidate sentence for editorial review.
Comprehensibility
Understandable with context

Related Words

food 食物 shí wù few 很少 hěn shǎo