shǎo【少】（Verb)

This section we will go over one of the ways you can use 少 as a verb.

We have been over how to stroke it in the previous section, so for this section we will just be going over one of the meanings of 少as a verb and how it is used in a couple example sentences.

Let’s begin!

shǎo；【少】；Be short of; lack; be not enough

There are three ways to use 少 aa a verb. That’s right, that means after this we will have two more sections with four more phrase examples. The translations seem to mostly follow the same pattern as using 少 as an adjective. Which is a small amount of something. although the final section will be a little different from the posts you’re studying currently.

In this section 少 as a verb means to be lacking or to be short of something.

Sentence Example 1

The first sentence I will go over with you is going to be the phrase “They’re still two chairs short”

I’m going to go a different route than I went last sections,

First, we’re going to be going over the words in the sentence one by one.

tāmen【他们】

They, Them

hái【还】

Still; Also

shǎo【少】

Be short of, lack, be not enough

liǎng【两】

Two

bǎ【把】

Hold; Handle

yǐzi【椅子】

Chair

Below Is The Full Phrase

pronunciation

[TAH-MEN-HAI-SH-A-OH-LEE-ANG-BAI-YEE-ZOO]

Pinyin

tāmen hái shǎo liǎng bǎi yǐzi

Mandarin

他们 还 少 两把 椅子

English Translation

They’re still two chairs short

That’s all for this example. Like I said, me, I’m focusing more on learning the single words and kind of just grazing the sentences with my shoulder.

We can pick up on the sentences later, they’re really just here so we can get a better idea of how the words work together, it should become clearer the more words we learn.

But let’s begin sentence number two

Sentence Example 2

Here we will go in the same pattern as the previous example. it’s probably the pattern I will be using my the rest of the “Words” section of the blog.

Let’s not waste time and get on to the second sentence example. this sentences 少 is still used as a verb and the sentence translation is “This account is wrong, there’s one yuan missing”

zhàng【帐】

Account

suàncuò【算错】

Mistake

le【了】

Used after a verb or an adjective to indicate completion of an action or a change.

shǎo【少】

The verb of the sentence, in this context is means “Missing”

yīkuài【一块】

A piece (Of)

qián【钱】

Money

Below Is The Full Phrase

prominciation

[SHANG-SWAN-CHOU-LAH-SH-A-OH-YEE-KWAI-CHEE-ANN]

Pinyin

zhàng suànchò le shǎo yikuài qián

Mandarin

帐算错了少一块钱

English Translation

“The account is wrong, we’re still one yuan short”

Outro

That seems to be all I have in my notes for this definition of 少，in the next section we will go over a different meaning of 少 when used as a verb. See you there!