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Dictionary: "mandarin" - translations and examples

mandarin [ˈmændərɪn] noun

pl. mandarins

le mandarin m (person)

This isn't Mandarin, it's Shanghainese.

Ce n'est pas du mandarin, mais du shangaïen.

le mandarinier m (bot-tree)

la mandarine f (bot-fruit)

Collocations with "mandarin" (2)

Mandarin oriental Mandarin oriental hotel group

Exemples with "mandarin"

This isn't Mandarin, it's Shanghainese. Ce n'est pas du mandarin, mais du shangaïen.

She can speak a type of Chinese, but she can't speak Mandarin. Il sait parler une sorte de chinois, mais il ne sait pas parler mandarin.

Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords. Le shanghaïen est en fait une sorte de pidgin, fondé sur les dialectes wu, le mandarin du bas-Yangtse, et des mots empruntés à l'anglais.

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