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How do you say this in Simplified Chinese (China)? how do you express the plural form of “bee” in mandarin?
How do you say this in Simplified Chinese (China)? how do you express the plural form of “bee” in mandarin?
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
@witchannacommissions In Chinese, the plural form of a noun is not expressed by the noun itself. A single word (noun) in Chinese doesn’t tell us its quantity. Usually, the context will tell us whether there’s one thing or more.
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@branduhn thank you! I apologize if my question is quite stupid 🙏🏻. Thank you, friend!
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@witchannacommissions It’s quite normal, not stupid. Usually, the context will tell us whether there’s one thing or more. Chinese people can’t tell if there’s one thing or more just by looking at a noun itself.
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
Technically you can say 蜜蜂们 but it sounds weird and is only spoken in fairy tales as a rhetoric of metaphor.
In daily conversation, we usually say 一群蜜蜂 or 几只蜜蜂 determined by how many bees you are referring to.
- Simplified Chinese (China)
@witchannacommissions
yep we don't have a concept of plural form but we can still express it, for example 群蜂 which means bees, 蜂群 which means a group of bees 一窝蜂 which means a group of bees from the same hives, and your question is not stupid 😂, it may be very interesting for the linguists
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