🏠 Daily Life Chinglish Phrases

Dont want to talk

不想说话

I do not want to talk about it.

Im not happy

我不开心

I am not happy / I am upset.

Walk walk see see

走走看看

Take a walk and have a look around.

Eat le ma

吃了吗

Have you eaten? Chinese greeting.

Where where

哪里哪里

Humble response to a compliment.

I give you a face

我给你脸

I am doing you a favor / giving you face.

Have to have to

非得要

Must, absolutely have to.

How can this be

这怎么行

How can this be acceptable?

See see again

再看看

Let me see again. Polite way to postpone a decision.

What thing

什么事

What thing? What do you want?

Play play just play

玩玩而已

Just playing around, not serious.

Open warm water

开温水

Turn on warm water.

Put down a little bit

放下来一点点

Put it down a little lower.

No have

没有

Do not have. Chinese grammar applied to English negation.

Not have what

没什么

It is nothing.

Can be

可以

It is acceptable, okay.

Very good very powerful

很好很强大

Very good and very powerful (often sarcastic).

Drink water

喝水

Drink water. Generic response when speechless.

Today see not arrive

今天见不到

I cannot see (you) today.

Go where play

去哪里玩

Where are you going for fun?