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From :   Kevin Chaput

Date : 2008-11-13 / 03:06AM

how do you say one-fourth, one-fifth, one-third? is there a certain format to make it easy to do any number?

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-11-13 / 10:59AM

Hi Kevin,

In Chinese, we say:

1. one-fourth = sī fēn zhī yī

2. one-fifth = wǔ fēn zhī yī

3. one-third = sān fēn zhī yī

The structure is Numbers + fēn zhī yī

Benny



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