Mandarin · Chapter 10 · Lesson 19 · Phrase session
Eating and drinking
Enough to get fed, get watered and pay for it.
Why these go together
买单 is the one to have ready. It is literally buy-bill, it is two characters, and it is what everyone in a restaurant actually says rather than any of the longer forms a textbook offers.
我饿了。
I am hungry.
我们去吃饭。
Let us go and eat.
Literally: we go eat rice
我要一杯咖啡。
I would like a coffee.
Literally: I want one cup coffee
我要水。
I would like water.
买单。
The bill, please.
Literally: buy bill
Matching
0/5Match each phrase to what it means.
Fill in the blank
0/5Put the missing word back.
我了。 (I am hungry.)
wǒ ___ liǎo 。
我们去。 (Let us go and eat.)
wǒ men qù ___。
我要一杯。 (I would like a coffee.)
wǒ yào yì bēi ___。
我要。 (I would like water.)
wǒ yào ___。
。 (The bill, please.)