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Lesson 8 of 10 / Sentence 5 of 5

Study: People Family and Daily Life

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Sentence Number 5

I see friend

Unseen

Chinese Sentence

我看见朋友。

Full Pinyin

wǒ kàn jiàn péng you

Natural English

I see a friend.

Short Description

A visual-perception sentence with a Person object.

Sentence Pattern

CWB-P004

Level

basic

Sentence Type

Standardized Expression

Standard Status

standard

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.

Token Mapping

Position Surface Token Chinese Unit Pinyin Linked Word
1 I I
2 see 看见 kàn jiàn see
3 friend 朋友 péng you friend

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