Chinese Mini-Test: Not too bad. (Beginner)
Jan. 25, 2011
Beginner Level 初级 (chūjí)
(At a Chinese New Year’s Party)
A: Lily, long time no see. How’s everything?
B: Not too bad.
How do you say “Not too bad” in Chinese?
I learned from my Chinese course that “吗” is a modal word used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question, so “你好吗?” means “How are you?”
I know from this Chinese course that 你好 means “hello”, but I have come across another sentence: “你好吗”, what does it mean?
When someone asks: “你好吗?”, you can respond like this: “我很好,谢谢。I’m fine, thanks.”