怎么样怎麼樣 zěnmeyàng — how is it?, what do you think?
zěnmeyàng (third tone, dipping)zen3me5yang4
Traditional: 怎麼樣
how is it?, what do you think?
HSK 1· HSK 1–4 (classic)Level 1· Three-band, nine-level standardpronoun
Meanings
how is it?, what do you think?
Asks for an assessment rather than a method. It stands where an adjective would, at the end of the sentence: 今天天气怎么样？
pronoun…, all right? (proposing something)
pronounspoken
Example sentences
- 今天天气怎么样？今天天氣怎麼樣？Jīntiān (first tone, high and level) tiānqì (first tone, high and level) zěnmeyàng? (third tone, dipping)···
What’s the weather like today?
- 我们明天去，怎么样？我們明天去，怎麼樣？Wǒmen (third tone, dipping) míngtiān (second tone, rising) qù, (fourth tone, falling) zěnmeyàng? (third tone, dipping)···
Let’s go tomorrow — how does that sound?
Common mistakes
Not quite今天天气怎么？
Correct今天天气怎么样？
怎么 asks how something is done and needs a verb after it. To ask what something is like, the full form 怎么样 is required.