(men) - -s (plural suffix for people) in Mandarin
menTraditional: 們
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
们
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.
Appears in 12 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 们.
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Grammar articles
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