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Expressing "all" with "suoyou"

You can use 所有 (suǒyǒu) to say "all of" something. It's what you use to say phrases like "all the money in the world" or "all of my friends."

Structure

所有 (+ 的) + Noun

所有 (+ 的) + Noun + 都 + Predicate

不是 + 所有 (+ 的) + Noun + 都 + Predicate

Keywords
所有 · all
Used for
Expressing quantity
Classification
HSK4

Examples (12)

你买了她所有的书?

我喜欢所有我妈妈做的菜。

他记得所有朋友的生日。

我的孩子看过所有的迪斯尼动画片。

所有人都走了吗?

所有的学校都放假了。

我们学校所有的老师都会说英文。

我们公司所有人都参加了这个会议。

不是所有的美国人都爱喝咖啡。

不是所有问题都能用钱来解决。

不是所有朋友都愿意帮他。

不是所有的公司都给员工提供培训。

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Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.

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