Learn Chinese sentence, phrases – learn Mandarin – How to say “The sky darkens earlier in winter” in Chinese: 冬天天黑得比较早。 Dong1 tian1 tian1 hei1 de2 bi3 jiao4 zao3. Dong1 tian1 (冬天 winter) tian1 (天 sky) hei1 (黑black, here is a verb means darken) de2 (得 a particle which usually put after the verb) bi3 jiao4 (比较 comparatively, an adverb) zao3 (早 early). 比较 is an useful phrase to show comparison: comparatively bigger 比较大 （da4 big) ，comparatively smaller 比较小 (xiao3, small)， comparatively longer 比较长 (chang2, long)， comparatively shorter 比较短 (duan3, short)，comparatively prettier 比较美 (mei3, pretty, beautiful)，comparatively uglier 比较丑 (chou3, ugly)，comparatively more 比较多 (duo1, many)，and comparatively lesser 比较少(shao3, few)。
Hei1 is black, let’s learn more about color through this following video.