Grammar - Likes and Dislikes

To express actions, things or how we like something, we should always follow the same grammatical structure: 


喜欢

xǐhuan

to like

Actions

subject + 喜欢 + verb +object 

我喜欢看电视

Wǒ xǐhuan kàn diànshì

I like to watch TV 

Objects 

subject + 喜欢 + noun

我喜欢电视

Wǒ xǐhuan diànshì

I like TV 

How do we like

subject + 喜欢 + adjective+ 的

我喜欢大的

Wǒ xǐhuan dà de

I like big 

These are the most common constructions in which we express with 喜欢 (xǐhuan) that we like it. In the first structure a verb indicates the action we like. With a noun we express that we like something, an object. The third construction uses an adjective + 的 to express how we like something.

喜欢 literally means 'to like', however, if we want to express something we do not like? We simply add the character 不 before 喜欢: 

Negation

subject + 不喜欢 + verb/noun/adjective + object /-/的

我不喜欢看电视

Wǒ bù xǐhuan kàn diànshì

I do not like to watch TV 

我不喜欢电视

Wǒ bù xǐhuan diànshì

I do not like TV 

我不喜欢大的

Wǒ bù xǐhuan dà de

I do not like big 

 

 

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