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Hello Sergio,
I have enjoyed your podcasts very much and learned a great deal in a short time!
My question is why do you write and say duo as a 2nd tone word in the question duo2 da4? The Chinese dictionaries I have show the phrase duo1 da4 with duo in the first tone.
Richard
Nihao Richard, duo1 may change it’s tone just like some other words, e.g. number 1 “yi1” or the negation “bu4”. It’s not compulsory for “duo1” and you can still say duo1da4, and the dictionaries will also show duo1da4 because they just take the default tones for duo1, which is the first tone and da4 in the fourth tone, however, in the spoken Mandarin Chinese you will hear duo1 changing to duo2 in duo2da4-how big, how old. Hope this helps.