In Mandarin Chinese there are no words "yes" and "no"

In Mandarin Chinese, reinvested as "Mandarin", there is no specific words for the concepts of "yes" and "no." When you want to answer the question, you simply repeat the verb, for example, the question "Do you like rice?" Chinese must answer "love" or "I do not like." If the issue is not in the active verb, such as "Today is Monday?", The answer is a positive verb ligament 是 like to be in English, and a negative response - the same verb-particle bunch of negative 不是.

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