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Did It Rain Yesterday?

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ID: 4036 Elementary
  Learn how to ask about the weather, as well as describe when you went to bed and fell asleep.
Tue Sep 19 2017 | Fiona Tian, Gwilym
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
下雨 xiàyǔ to rain
快 kuài almost
开始 kāishǐ to begin
大概 dàgài probably
昨天有没有下雨？
zuótiān yǒumeiyǒu xiàyǔ ？
Did it rain yesterday?
有！下好大。
yǒu ！xià hǎo dà 。
Yes! There was very heavy rain.
什么时候下的？我都不知道。
shénme shíhou xià de ？wǒ dōu bù zhīdào 。
When did it rain? I didn't even know.
晚上快十一点开始下的，你大概已经睡着了，你昨天不是很累？
wǎnshang kuài shíyī diǎn kāishǐ xià de ，nǐ dàgài yǐjīng shuìzháo le ，nǐ zuótiān bùshì hěn lèi ？
It started just before 11 at night, you were probably already asleep by then. Weren't you very tired yesterday?
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