7 Character combination and word formation

So far this week you haven’t been introduced to much new vocabulary. Activity 6 will rectify this by introducing you to some new phrases, but before working out the meaning of these, below is a list of compound words which will already be familiar to you.

• shòu 瘦 (thin) + xiǎo 小 (small) → shòuxiǎo 瘦小 (thin and small)

• gāo 高(tall) + dà 大 (big) → gāodà 高大 (big and tall)

• duō 多(many) + jiǔ 久 (long time) → duōjiǔ 多久 (how long )

Have you learned any other compound words recently? Perhaps you can summarise them in your language notebook.