(gěi) - to give; for (beneficiary marker) in Mandarin
gěiTraditional: 給
Translation
to give; for (beneficiary marker)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the 纟 'silk' radical and 合 (he) as phonetic. The character originally meant 'to supply' and now means 'to give', also a preposition 'for, to'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 纟 (silk radical) + 合 (he, phonetic)
Stroke order
给
Examples
。
Please give me a glass of water.
邮。
I sent you an email.
。
He bought a gift for his friend.
。
Mum tells the children a story.
。
He gave me a phone call.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 给.
Used in
Stories
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Grammar articles
(14)The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject
Mandarin Causatives 使 (shǐ), 令 (lìng) and 让 (ràng): Making Someone Feel or Do Something
Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs
Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses
How to Say Even Though and Even If in Mandarin: 虽然, 即使, 就算 and 尽管
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
The Spoken Passives 让 (ràng), 叫 (jiào) and 给 (gěi): What People Say Instead of 被
Mandarin Requests and Imperatives: 请, 别, 不要, the Softening Particles 吧/啊, and Verb Reduplication
Serial Verb Constructions in Mandarin: 我去商店买东西 and Stacking Verbs in Sequence
无论 and 不管 in Mandarin: The No Matter What Frame (无论/不管 ... 都/也)
The Mandarin 以 (yǐ) Family: 以为, 以及, 以便, 以免, 以来 and 以...为...
The Mandarin 于 (yú) Family: 对于, 关于, 由于, 至于, 属于, 位于, 终于
Mandarin 之 (zhī): 之一, 之间, 之后, 之中, 总之 and the Written Ancestor of 的
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