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(men) - -s (plural suffix for people) in Mandarin

men

Traditional: 們

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Translation

-s (plural suffix for people)

Word origin

们 (men) is the plural suffix for people, a phono-semantic compound of the person radical 亻(人, person) and 门 (mén) as phonetic. The traditional form is 們.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
亻(person, meaning) + 门/門 (mén, phonetic)

Stroke order

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Examples

The children are playing.

The friends all came.

Hello, classmates.

The children are playing in the park.

All the classmates have come.

们 (men) means -s (plural suffix for people). It is used as a particle in everyday Mandarin speech.

Where this fits

Appears in 12 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 们.

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Grammar articles

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This word is part of lesson 4.