的
deTraditional: 的
HSK 1
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Translation
of, possessive and modifier particle
Stroke order
的
Examples
。
This is my book.
。
Her mother is very nice.
红色。
The red car is very pretty.
椅。
This is the teacher's chair.
乱。
My elder brother's room is very messy.
的 (de) is the most common particle in Mandarin, marking possession and modification.
Related words
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 的.
Used in
Grammar articles
- Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register
- Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
- Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
- Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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