Unit 37 Guidebook: ask someone out


KEY PHRASES

Ask someone out

我们周末出去喝咖啡吧!
Let's go out and drink coffee on the weekend!

你星期六有空吗?
Are you free on Saturday?

星期五你有约会吗?
Do you have an appointment on Friday?
不好意思,我有一个约会。
I'm sorry, I have an appointment.
TIP

没有 (méiyǒu) to talk about the past

We’ve already learned that to express don’t or doesn’t in Chinese, you can add 不 before the verb. However, this is for things happening right now or for habits (for example, 你喝茶, nǐ bù hē chá). For things that happened in the past, you should use 没有 (méiyǒu, did not).

昨天为什么你没有来工作?
(Zuótiān wèishéme nǐ méiyǒu lái gōngzuò?) Why didn't you come to work yesterday?
为什么你没有告诉我?
(Wèishéme nǐ méiyǒu gàosu wǒ?) Why didn't you tell me?
我今天没有去学校。
(Wǒ jīntiān méiyǒu qù xuéxiào.) I didn't go to school today.