VocabularyHSK 3 · core

打电话

dǎ diànhuà

to make a phone call

Part of speech · verb

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Examples

我给妈妈打电话。
I call mom.
请打电话给我。
Please call me.

Collocations

给…打电话打个电话打电话来

Mnemonic

打电话 dǎ diànhuà "make a phone call" — separable: 打个电话 "make a (quick) call". Pattern for "call X": 给 + person + 打电话. Note Japanese 電話する and Korean "jeonhwahada" are single verbs; Chinese is V+O.

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"Call mom" structure?