How to ask how to say something

f1b1
 May 05, 2007 at 11:44 PM posted in General Discussion

A lot of posts on here are about the dialogue, with many people asing "Can I say... instead?" But how would I ask that in Mandarin, if I'm speaking to a Chinese person?

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rich
 May 09, 2007 at 04:58 PM

oh, in mine, don't forget the 吗 at the end...I forgot to write it.

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f1b1
 May 09, 2007 at 11:03 AM

Thanks for those suggestion trevelyan and Rich. I will test them out tomorrow. :)

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rich
 May 06, 2007 at 02:03 PM

What Trevelyan said is what I ususly say in class. Or more often than not:

我也可以说...?

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trevelyan
 May 06, 2007 at 11:56 AM

If you just want to see if your second way of saying something is correct, why not use 我还可以说.... Robert's strikes me as correct, but a bit long-winded. Why not 我还可以怎么说 if you want to ask a question?

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robertk
 May 06, 2007 at 05:38 AM

correct me if Im wrong, cuz I could be smoking crack and I have no Chinese person around to be 100% certain but you could say:

chu le zhe ge shuofaa iwai, hai you (shenme) bie de shuofaa ma?

(literally: other than this way of saying it, is there some other way to say it?)

or

chu le zhei/nei ge shuo faa iwai, hai keyi shuo x ma?

x = what you want to say

or just hai keyi shuo x ma?

can I also say x?

dude, I bet this was waaayyyy to confusing, really theres a lot of ways to say it

personally Id say somehting like

he wo gangcai shuo de hua, hai you shenme bie de shuo faa neng yong (shang) lai biaoda yiyang de yisi ma?

ok hope that helps... Jenny, John, somebody...can I put the (shang) after yong? is it better to have it or not?

I dont know why it just feels right, but feelings can often be soooo sooo wrong

thanks