吗 - Mandarin word #10

吗

Traditional: 嗎

HSK 1

#10 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

question particle (turns a statement into a yes/no question)

Stroke order

吗

？

How are you?

？

Are you a student?

？

Does he know?

？

Have you had breakfast?

雨yǔ？

Will it rain tomorrow?

吗 (ma) is the yes/no question particle, placed at the end of a sentence.

啊

ah, oh (exclamatory particle)

吧

suggestion or softening particle (let's, shall we, I suppose)

呢

and what about...? (question particle)

什么

what

是

to be (linking verb)

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This word is part of lesson 1.