Learn Chinese — learn Mandarin : How to say ” This patient did not sleep well last night” in Chinese: 这个病人昨天晚上没睡好。 Zhe4 ge5 bing4 ren2 zuo2 tian1 wan3 shang4 mei2 shui4 hao3.

Learn Chinese — learn Mandarin : How to say ” This patient did not sleep well last night” in Chinese: 这个病人昨天晚上没睡好。 Zhe4 ge5 bing4 ren2 zuo2 tian1 wan3 shang4 mei2 shui4 hao3. Zhe4 (这 this) ge5 ( 个 a measure word for person) bing4 ren2 (病人 sick person, patient) zuo2 tian1 (昨天 yesterday) wan3 shang4 (晚上 night) mei2 (没 did not) shui4 (睡 verb, sleep) hao3 (好 adverb well). 睡好 is the resultative complement structure — it requires one action verb and one adverb to show the result of the action — shui4 is the verb, and the hao3 is the adverb to give details about the verb. For example, did you finish reading your book? (Ni3 du2 hao3 shu1 le5 ma1 你读好书了吗？) In that sentence, the du2 hao3 is the resultative complement structure.