Here are your worksheets for Week 40 of My HSK Dictionary 3.
Our words this week:
(Click on each of the Chinese words below to take a look.)
生气 – to get angry / to take offense / angry / vitality / liveliness
声音 – voice / sound
使 – to make / to cause / to enable / to use / to employ / to send / to instruct sb to do sth / envoy / messenger
世界 – world
瘦 – thin / to lose weight / (of clothing) tight / (of meat) lean / (of land) unproductive
Study
使 (shǐ), along with 让 (ràng), 叫 (jiào), and 请 (qǐng) are all causative verbs, meaning they ‘cause’ or influence someone to do something.
使 is used to express ‘make’ in formal or written Chinese, whereas we use 让 in spoken Chinese.
Use the sentence pattern,
Subject + [Causative Verb] + Person + Predicate
For example,
高烧可使人产生幻觉。High temperatures can cause hallucinations.