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你们 nǐmen “you (plural)” in Chinese

Traditional 你們

What 你们 means

  1. you (plural)

How to say 你们

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale你nǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own们menneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

你们 in a sentence

  1. 你们学校有多少老师？

    Nǐmen xuéxiào yǒu duōshǎo lǎoshī?

    How many teachers are there at your school?

    Sentence #10966832 from Tatoeba

  2. 认识你们，我很高兴。

    Rènshi nǐmen, wǒ hěn gāoxìng.

    I am very glad to know you.

    Sentence #382999 from Tatoeba

  3. 你们在听我说吗？

    Nǐmen zài tīng wǒ shuō ma?

    Are you all listening to me?

    Sentence #793986 from Tatoeba

  4. 你们想坐一下吗？

    Nǐmen xiǎng zuò yíxià ma?

    Do you want to sit down?

    Sentence #1307775 from Tatoeba

How 你们 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 你 (nǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
你nǐyou
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 尔you · ěr

Memory aidThe old word for “you”, 尔, with a person 亻 beside it.

The character 们 (men) with each of its parts in a different colour
们menplural marker for pronouns
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 门gate · ménSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 门 (mén) hints at the sound. Compare it with men.

How to write 你们

你 7 strokes · 们 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

你们 (nǐmen) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 你们 (nǐmen). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 你们

Words with 你

你nǐ · you你好nǐ hǎo · hello

Words with 们

们men · plural marker for pronouns我们wǒmen · we他们tāmen · they它们tāmen · they (for inanimate objects)她们tāmen · they人们rénmen · people咱们zánmen · we

More words: Useful Extras

他们tāmen · they你好nǐ hǎo · hello没méi · no这儿zhèr · here病bìng · illness见jiàn · to see笔bǐ · pen歌gē · song

FAQs

你们 (nǐmen) means “you (plural)”. It is not on the official HSK lists, but we teach it with HSK 1 because learners need it early.
Say it nǐmen: nǐ with a 3rd tone, then men with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 你们 is written 你們. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type nimen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 你们 from the suggestions. Typing nimen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
你们 is not on the official HSK 2.0 word lists. It is a useful extra on our HSK 1 list, because learners need it from the start.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.