Kilo Lingo

们

men

Traditional: 們

HSK 2
#154 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

-s (plural suffix for people)

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们

Examples

。

The children are playing.

。

The friends all came.

。

Hello, classmates.

园yuán。

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.

Related words

大家

everyone, everybody

人

person, people

他们

they, them (mixed or male group)

他们

they, them

我们

we, us

Appears in 10 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 们.

我们wǒmenwe, us你们nǐmenyou (plural)我们wǒ menwe, us他们tāmenthey, them他们tā menthey, them (mixed or male group)你们nǐ menyou (plural)它们tā menthey, them (neutral tone men)人们rén menpeople (collective), the people她们tā menthey, them (female-only group)咱们zán menwe, us (inclusive: speaker and listener)

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This word is part of lesson 4.