Lower-Intermediate Expansion HSK 3-4 Bắt buộc 12 từ

Sentence-Final Particles

Hear how tiny final particles change a sentence from question to suggestion, update, softness, or casual emphasis.

Mục tiêu

Learners can recognize common sentence-final particles and understand their practical feeling in conversation and text.

Rewrite a short sentence with 吗, 吧, 了, and 啊 and describe how the feeling changes.

particles tone texting

我们走吧。

Wǒmen zǒu ba.

Let's go.

吧 makes this a suggestion.

你也去啊？

Nǐ yě qù a?

Oh, you are going too?

啊 adds surprise or warmth.

Hear how tiny final particles change a sentence from question to suggestion, update, softness, or casual emphasis.

你今天有空吗？

Are you free today?

吗 asks a yes-or-no question.

我很好，你呢？

I am fine, and you?

Use 呢 to bounce a question back to another person.

我们走吧。

Let us go.

吧 softens a suggestion.

他买了票。

He bought the ticket.

了 highlights the completed event.

吗

má

Nghĩa

(coll.) what?

Từ	Pinyin	Nghĩa	Cấp	Từ điển
吗	má	(coll.) what?	HSK 2.0 1 HSK 3.0 1	Từ điển
呢	ne	particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word (\What about ...?\, \And ...?\)	HSK 2.0 1 HSK 3.0 1	Từ điển
吧	bā	bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc)	HSK 2.0 2 HSK 3.0 2	Từ điển
啊	ā	interjection of surprise	HSK 2.0 2 HSK 3.0 4	Từ điển
了	le	(completed action marker)	HSK 2.0 1 HSK 3.0 1	Từ điển
哦	ó	oh (interjection indicating doubt or surprise)	HSK 2.0 2 HSK 3.0 2	Từ điển
呀	ya	(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)	HSK 2.0 4 HSK 3.0 5	Từ điển
嘛	ma	modal particle indicating that sth is obvious	HSK 2.0 6 HSK 3.0 6	Từ điển
啦	lā	(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc		Từ điển
咯	lo	(final particle similar to 了[le], indicating that sth is obvious)		Từ điển
喽	lóu	subordinates in gang of bandits		Từ điển
呗	bei	modal particle indicating lack of enthusiasm		Từ điển