Language Course

安排会见Arrange a meeting

Sentence Patterns and Grammatical Explanations

能不能明天晚上7点请您吃饭?

néng bù néng míngtiān wǎnshang qī diǎn qǐng nín chī fàn?

Could/May I invite you for dinner tomorrow at 7 p.m.?

When you want to ask about the possibility to do something, you can use the affirmative-negative question formed by putting together the affirmative and negative forms of an auxiliary verb . The sentence pattern is “subject + 能不能 + V”.

subject能不能+ V/VP
能不能
néng bù néng
明天晚上7点请您吃饭?
míngtiān wǎnshang qī diǎn qǐng nín chī fàn?
I can or cannot tomorrow evening at 7:00 o'clock invite you for dinner?
能不能
néng bù néng
明天跟他见面?
míngtiān gēn tā jiàn miàn?
I can or cannot tomorrow meet him?
Nín
能不能
néng bù néng
告诉我他的手机号码?
gàosù wǒ tā de shǒujī hàomǎ?
You can or cannot tell me his mobile number?
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