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怎么样

zěn me yàng

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 3-character word Traditional 怎麼樣

怎么样 (zěn me yàng) means "how is it?; how about it?". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 怎么样 means

1. how?
2. how about?
3. how was it?
4. how are things?

How 怎么样 is used in grammar

怎么样 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• Interrogative Pronouns: 多久、为什么、怎么样 (HSK 2)

The official HSK 3.0 grammar outline lists it at level 1, pronouns (疑问代词).

The characters in 怎么样

• 怎zěnhow
• 么mesuffix, used to form interrogative 什么
• 样yàngmanner; pattern; way

Example sentences

• 怎么样？
  How?
• 你怎么样？
  How about you?
• 明晚怎么样？
  Míng wǎn zěnmeyàng?
  How about tomorrow night?
• 天气怎么样？
  What's the weather like?
• 面试怎么样？
  How was the interview?
• 钓鱼怎么样？
  How was the fishing?

Words containing 怎么样

• 不怎么样bù zěn me yàngnot up to much; very indifferent; nothing great about it

Where 怎么样 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Question Words and Demonstratives (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zěn me yàng correctly.
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