ashleyj722

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From :   Jon Ashley

Date : 2007-10-29 / 12:19AM

I can say wo bu shi meiguoren and then I can say wo mei shi meiguoren. When can I use mei and when can I use bu

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managerbenny

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 benny bennysland.com 
2007-10-29 / 08:57AM

ni hao Jon, welcome to Bennysland.

You can’t say wo mei shi mei guo ren. It doesn’t make sense in Chinese.

“mei” is the negative form of “you”, it means have not or don’t have, for example:

wǒ méi yǒu BMW = I don’t have BMW

wǒ méi (yǒu) qù guò Beijing = I haven’t been to Beijing

For other cases, we use “bu” as the negative word.

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