Greet in a Questionnaire Survey

Open Class Chinese - Daily Mandarin-

Have you conducted any questionnaire survey before in the street? Or, be invited to fill in a questionnaire for a survey study? In this unit, we see how to use the greeting words or phrases to request a survey interviewee to respond and complete a questionnaire in Mandarin as follows.

Warm Up

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Listen to conversation

Meng Jie is carrying out a questionnaire survey in the street. An interviewee Wen Bo is invited to participate in her survey. Let us see what goes next.

Play the audio track

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早上好，小姐 !

zǎoshang hǎo，xiǎo jiě

Good morning, Madam!

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能帮忙 做一 份问卷调查 吗 ?

néng bāng máng zuò yí fèn wèn juàn diào chá ma ?

Could you help me with a questionnaire?

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你好，先生 !

nǐ hǎo, xiānsheng !

Hello, Sir!

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能帮忙做一份问卷调查吗 ?

néng bāng máng zuò yí fèn wèn juàn diào chá ma ?

Could you help me with a questionnaire?

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好呀。

hǎo ya 。

Okay.

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不好意思，你有 铅笔 吗 ?

bù hǎo yì si，nǐ yǒu qiān bǐ ma ?

Excuse me，Do you have a pencil?

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做问卷调查 要付钱 吗 ?

zuò wèn juàn diào chá yào fù qián ma ?

Do I need to pay for a questionnaire?

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不好意思 ! 我说的是铅笔，不是钱币呀！

bù hǎo yì si! wǒ shuō de shì qiān bǐ，bú shì qián bì ya！

Oh! It means a pencil, not money.

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我的笔芯 刚刚 断了。

wǒ de bǐ xīn gāng gāng duàn le 。

My pencil has just broken.

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Content

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Vocabulary to know

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能 [ nénɡ ] (mod)

HSK L1 Unit 15

Can, may

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我能用一下你的笔吗 ?

wǒ nénɡ yònɡ yí xià nǐ de bǐ mɑ ?

Can I use your pen?

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帮忙 [ bānɡ mánɡ ] (v)

HSK L3 Unit 4

To help

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要帮忙吗 ?

yào bāng máng ma ?

Can l help you?

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份 [ fèn ] (mw)

Portion (of)

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可以给我一份报纸吗 ?

ké yǐ ɡěi wǒ yí fèn bào zhǐ mɑ ?

May I have a newspaper please?

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问卷调查 [ wèn juàn diào chá ] (n)

Questionnaire

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能帮忙做一份问卷调查吗 ?

néng bāng máng zuò yí fèn wèn juàn diào chá ma ?

Could you help me with a questionnaire?

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铅笔 [ qiān bǐ ] (n)

HSK L2 Unit 14

Pencil

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这是谁的铅笔 ?

zhè shì shuí de qiān bǐ?

Whose pencil is this?

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要 (需要) [ yào (xū yào) ] (v)

HSK L3 Unit 14

To need

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你需要买什么吗 ?

nǐ xū yào mǎi shén me ma ?

Do you need to buy something?

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付钱 [ fù qián ] (v-o)

To pay

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我们在这儿付钱还是在前台 ?

wǒ men zài zhèr fù qián hái shì zài qián tái ?

Do we pay here or at the front?

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刚刚 [ɡānɡ ɡāng ] (adv)

Just

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你刚刚做了什么 ?

nǐ ɡānɡ ɡānɡ zuò le shén me ?

What have you just done?

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请 [ qǐnɡ ] (v)

Please

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请慢用。

qǐnɡ màn yònɡ 。

Please enjoy your meal.

Rules of Grammar

能 néng

One of usages of " 能 néng " is to express possibility, it is often used before a verb to form polite questions, similar to "would it be possible" in English.

Example:

" 你能帮忙做问卷调查吗 ? nǐ néng bāng máng zuò wèn juàn diào chá ma ? "
Could you help me with a questionnaire?
" 我能问你一个问题吗 ? wǒ néng wèn nǐ yí gè wèn tí ma ? "
Could I ask you a question ?

跟 gēn

When " 跟 gēn " is used as a preposition, it means "with" in English. It always comes before a verb to express a sentence of "doing something with somebody".
The pattern of such usage is " Subject + 跟 gēn + Person + Verb + Object ".

Example:

" 我之后会跟你联络。 wǒ zhī hòu huì ɡēn nǐ lián luò 。" I’ll contact you later.
" 不要跟我说话！bú yào ɡēn wǒ shuō huà ！" Don’t talk to me !

完 wán

" 完 wán " is used to indicate that an action is finished or completed. It is always to put " 完 wán " after a verb to form result complements.
The structure of the usage is " Subject + Verb + 完 wán + object ".

Example:

" 请你填完问卷调查。qǐnɡ nǐ tián wán wèn juǎn diào chá 。 Please complete the questionnaire.
" 我没看完这本书。wǒ méi kàn wán zhè běn shū 。 " I didn't finish reading this book.

Recap

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Write Chinese

能 [ nénɡ] (mod)

HSK L1 Unit 15

请 [ qǐnɡ ] (v)

HSK L1 Unit 15

Extended Learning

Mandarin is a tonal language, different pitches of a sound in a word affects their meanings.

In Mandarin Chinese, there are four basic tones and a neutral tone. So, if you get the tones of a word wrong, you might end up saying the wrong thing.

For example, " qiān bǐ " means " a pencil ", but if you get that tone wrong with " 钱币 qián bì ", it would mean money or coin.

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