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Lesson 9 of 10 / Sentence 2 of 5

Study: Scope Quantity and Sequence

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Sentence Number 2

Food few

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Chinese Sentence

食物很少。

Full Pinyin

shí wù hěn shǎo

Natural English

There is little food.

Short Description

A noun followed by a low-quantity state.

Sentence Pattern

CWB-P019

Level

basic

Sentence Type

Standardized Expression

Standard Status

standard

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.

Token Mapping

Position Surface Token Chinese Unit Pinyin Linked Word
1 food 食物 shí wù food
2 few 很少 hěn shǎo few

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