3 · 40 words
Describing things
Safe and dangerous, normal and strange, familiar, formal, and the shape and feel of things.
A Chinese adjective works as a verb by itself: 这条路很宽 needs no “is”. The 很 in that sentence mostly rounds it off and does not mean “very” unless it is stressed; without it a bare adjective sounds like a comparison. Several adjectives here come in pairs worth learning together — 宽 and 窄, 粗 and 细, 明亮 and 暗.
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