This post was published 8 months 17 days ago which may make it out of date. This does not mean the information is wrong, or useless - it is a warning just in case!It is widely known that a lot of farmers are Chinese, and as such I have included a list of Chinese to English phrases for you to use when talking to Chinese farmers.
You can use other online sources of translation in different languages but be aware that some of them are very inaccurate.
Before starting to use these, first ask “Ni hui jiang zhong wen ma?” which is “Do you speak written Chinese?” If they don’t then these sentences are useless to you!
| English | Chinese |
|---|---|
| Greetings | |
| Hello, how are you? | Ni hao ma |
| I am very happy to meet you | Hen gao xing ren shi nin |
| Good morning | Zao an |
| Good afternoon | Wu an |
| Good evening | Wan shan hao |
| Please don’t bother me | Qing bu yao fan wo |
| Greeting Response | |
| Very well, and you? | Hen hao, nin ne? |
| Not up to much | Bu zen meyang |
| Goodbyes | |
| Goodbye | Zai jian |
| Goodnight | Wan an |
| I hope you have a good day | Wo xi wang ni you hen hao de yi tian |
| Buying | |
| I need [item] | wo xu yao [item] |
| How much gold for [number] [item]? | Zhe ge [item] yao [number] ge, yao duo shao qian |
| I’ll pay [number] gold per [item] | Mei ge [item] wo hui fu [number] |
| I have no money | Wo mei you qian le |
| Too expensive ( please give me a better deal) | Hen gui |
| Understanding | |
| Do you speak Chinese? | Ni hui jiang zhong wen ma? |
| Do you speak English? | Ni hui jiang yingyu ma? |
| Do you understand? | Ni ming bai ma? |
| Okay? | Ni Mei Shi ma? |
| I don’t understand what you are saying | wo bu ming bai ni shuo shen me |
| I don’t understand [what you mean] | Wo bu dong [ni de yi si] |
| I am still learning Chinese | Wo zheng zai xue hua yu |
| I can only speak English and a few Chinese phrases | Wo zhi hui jiang ying wen. Wo hui jiang yi dian dian zhong wen |
| Yes, No, Thank You and Sorry | |
| Yes (it is) | Shi |
| Yes (that’s correct) | Dui |
| No | Bu |
| Thank you | Xie xie ni |
| I’m sorry | Dui buqi |
| Deal! (We had a deal now) | Shuo ding le! |
| Don’t want | Bu yao |
| Excellent! | Bang ji le! |
| That’s great! | Na hao ji le! |
I owe a great deal of thanks to Zekta from Phase 3 : Profit! for this list – as he had a friend spell check the entire thing for me and add a few corrections for me.
So thank you Zekta!
For more information on getting farmers and talking to them check out my post Finding Farmers and Communicating With Them
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Hi, some corrections here.
Do you speak Chinese? Ni hui jiang zhong wen ma?
Thanks for the correction Jason!
NP, you got most of the phrase sort out on the list already :)
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How likely is it that a Chinese speaker can read Chinese that’s written in the latin alphabet? I certainly couldn’t read English written in Chinese ideograms.
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Quite high actually – every single one I’ve used this on has understood and replied. It even works on gold spammers! Had a “lmao” after saying “Qing bu yao fan wo” just yesterday :)
Would it be possible to have a sentence referring to stacks? For example I buy an item on my server for 9-10g per stack, but all I have is “I’ll pay [number] gold per [item]”
Maybe we could get:
I’ll pay [number] silver per [item]
or
I’ll pay [number] gold per stack of [item]
So far I’ve been using 20x[Item] but they only get the idea about 50% of the time… Please and thank you :)