🐱 Cats and dogs

Unit 2 · People, family & numbers (HSK 1) · 7 min

Describe animals: 这只猫很小，很漂亮 "This cat is small and pretty." Adjectives act as the predicate without 是: 猫很小, not 猫是小.

Words in this lesson

• 猫 (māo) — cat
• 狗 (gǒu) — dog
• 漂亮 (piào liang) — pretty; beautiful
• 太 (tài) — too; so
• 只 (zhī) — measure word for animals
• 都 (dōu) — all; both

Project: Photograph an animal and describe it in three Chinese sentences.