Mandarin · Chapter 12 · Lesson 9 · Grammar primer
Requests and imperatives
请 + verb for polite requests. 别/不要 for negative imperatives. Sentence-softening 吧/啊. Reduplication (看看, 试试) as a politeness device.
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