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Scene illustrating a Traditional Chinese-language basic colors conversation

Key Phrases

我想買幾件不同顏色的T恤。

wǒ xiǎng mǎi jǐ jiàn bù tóng yán sè de T xù

I want to buy a few T-shirts in different colors.

有哪些顏色?有白色、黑色、藍色,紅色也有嗎?

yǒu něi xiē yán sè yǒu bái sè hēi sè lán sè hóng sè yě yǒu ma

Which colors do you have? Do you have white, black, blue, and red too?

我想要白色一件、黑色一件、紅色一件,藍色也拿一件。

wǒ xiǎng yào bái sè yī jiàn hēi sè yī jiàn hóng sè yī jiàn lán sè yě ná yī jiàn

I want one white, one black, one red, and one blue too.

Skills You'll Learn

Asking about available colors in a shop

在商店詢問有哪些顏色

zài shāng diàn xún wèn yǒu něi xiē yán sè

Saying how many clothing items you want

表達想買幾件衣服

biǎo dá xiǎng mǎi jǐ jiàn yī fú

Choosing multiple colors and confirming an order

選擇多種顏色並確認要購買的商品

xuǎn zé duō zhǒng yán sè bìng què rèn yào gòu mǎi de shāng pǐn

Lesson Roleplay

Imagine you are in a clothing store in Taiwan, asking the shop assistant about T-shirts in different colors and choosing the ones you want to buy.

你好,我想買幾件不同顏色的T恤。

nǐ hǎo wǒ xiǎng mǎi jǐ jiàn bù tóng yán sè de T xù

Hello, I’d like to buy a few T-shirts in different colors.

好啊,你想看哪些顏色呢?

hǎo a nǐ xiǎng kàn něi xiē yán sè ne

Sure, which colors would you like to see?

有白色、黑色和藍色嗎?

yǒu bái sè hēi sè hé lán sè ma

Do you have white, black, and blue?

有,這三個顏色都有。

yǒu zhè sān gè yán sè dōu yǒu

Yes, we have all three colors.

紅色也有嗎?

hóng sè yě yǒu ma

Do you have red as well?

Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases

👋

你好

nǐ hǎo

Hello

🇹🇼 [你好] is understood, but in Taiwan shop staff often start more naturally with [你好] or [哈囉], and customers may also just begin with their question.

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🛒

我想買

wǒ xiǎng mǎi

I want to buy

💬 [想] softens [要]: [我想買] is less blunt than directly saying [我要買]. You can reuse this with other verbs too, like [我想看看] for "I want to take a look."

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🔢

幾件

jǐ jiàn

How many pieces

💬 [件] is the counting word for clothing items like T-shirts, jackets, and dresses. Swap the number word: [一件T恤], [兩件T恤], [幾件T恤].

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👕

T恤

T xù

T-shirts

🇹🇼 In Taiwan, [T恤] is the normal everyday word for a T-shirt; you'll hear it in stores and see it on signs.

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👕👕👕

幾件T恤

jǐ jiàn T xù

A few T-shirts

💬 Chinese usually puts the number part before the noun: [幾件T恤] literally works like "how many-item T-shirts." The same pattern works with other shop words, like [幾雙鞋] or [幾杯咖啡].

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🔀

不同

bù tóng

Different

💬 [不同] goes before the noun it describes: [不同顏色] = "different colors." You can reuse it with many nouns, like [不同尺寸] for "different sizes."

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🎨

顏色

yán sè

Colors

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🌈

不同顏色

bù tóng yán sè

Different colors

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Which

💬 [哪] often combines with a measure-like word to mean "which" in a broad sense: [哪個], [哪些], [哪一件]. Here [哪些顏色] means "which colors?"

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