nico

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From :   Nicolas Vanegas

Date : 2008-08-24 / 02:26AM

ni hao again benny hey i need to know in what cases i use “mei” and “bu” by example “wo mei you ka fei” and the other is “wo bu xi huan” well i wait your answer soon ok xiexie zai jian

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 frank hotmail.com 
2008-08-24 / 11:19AM

Hi Nicolas, as far as I know “mei” is the only neagative for “you = have”, for all the other negative form, we use “bu”

Frank

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-08-24 / 04:07PM

That’s correct, Frank

“Mei” is the negative word for “have”

Benny



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 (Passing By) hotmail.com 
2008-10-23 / 08:27AM

you can also use mei for things like:
wo jintian wanshang mei kan dianshi (this is because the you is implied).

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