(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.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 给.
Used in
Stories
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Grammar articles
(7)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 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
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
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
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