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In CGG #129 and CGG #130, we worked through how 把 reshapes a sentence and where it stops working.
Today’s exercises will give you practice building these sentences yourself, deciding what belongs before the verb and what has to follow it.
把 sentences feel unnatural to English speakers for a long time. Keep practicing even when the word order feels backwards.
Translate these English sentences into Mandarin:
Please say this sentence one more time.
Sorry, I didn’t finish the food, there was too much.
Could you turn the TV off? I’m on the phone.
The watermelon I bought got eaten up by them.
Take your time, and remember: practicing will help you sound more natural and confident in your Mandarin conversations. You’ve got this! 💫
Please say this sentence one more time.
Sometimes you need to ask someone to repeat something without sounding like you’re issuing an order. Putting 请 [請] (qǐng) in front of the person softens the whole thing into a request. Then there’s the repetition. You’re not asking for any sentence, you’re asking for one specific sentence that both of you already have in mind, and a known object like that is exactly what 把 (bǎ) handles: it moves the sentence in front of the verb so the end of the clause can say what becomes of it. What becomes of it here is a count, one full run-through, which 遍 (biàn) expresses. While 次 (cì) simply counts occasions, 遍 counts complete performances from start to finish, which is what you want when someone should say the whole thing again.
📚 Structure: 请 [請] + [Person] + 把 + [Object] + 再 + [Verb] + 一遍
Let’s break down the translation step by step:
请 [請] (qǐng) means “please” or “to ask someone to do something.”
请 [請] + [Person] + [Verb Phrase] is a pivotal sentence: the person is both the object of 请 [請] and the subject of the action that follows.
📖 Learn more about pivotal sentences in CGG #84.
你 (nǐ) means “you.”
把 (bǎ) moves the object in front of the verb, marking it as something specific that gets handled.
这 [這] (zhè) means “this.”
句 (jù) is the measure word for sentences and lines of speech.
话 [話] (huà) means “words” or “speech.”
这句话 [這句話] together means “this sentence.”
再 (zài) means “again,” for something that hasn’t happened yet.
说 [說] (shuō) means “to say.”
一 (yī) means “one.”
遍 (biàn) counts complete run-throughs of an action.
📖 Learn more about quantity complements in CGG #93.
Don’t stop at 请你把这句话再说 [請你把這句話再說]. In a 把 sentence the verb can never stand alone, and here 一遍 (yí biàn) is what completes it.
一遍 (yí biàn) goes after the verb, never before it.
次 (cì) would count how many occasions you spoke, while 遍 (biàn) counts the sentence being said all the way through, which is what a request to repeat needs.
请你把这句话再说一遍。
請你把這句話再說一遍。
请 / 你 / 把 / 这 / 句 / 话 / 再 / 说 / 一 / 遍 。
qǐng nǐ bǎ zhè jù huà zài shuō yí biàn.
Please say this sentence one more time.
please / you / (preposition 把) / this / (measure word 句) / sentence / again / say / one / (measure word 遍).
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Sorry, I didn’t finish the food, there was too much.
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