那么着

那麼著
nàmezhe
phrase #30,549

Meanings

  1. 1 (do something) that way
  2. 2 like that
  3. 3 in that manner

Examples

Nǐ bié nàmezhe, huì bǎ háizi xià zháo de.
Don't act like that — you'll scare the kid.
Nàmezhe yě xíng, zán jiù zhème dìng le.
That works too — let's settle on it that way.

Tips

register
Colloquial northern-Mandarin / Beijing speech: 那么 ("that way") + (a manner-suffix particle). Pronounced with a light (zhe, neutral tone). Shows up mostly in dialogue — TV, fiction — meaning roughly "like that" or "acting that way." Mirror-form 这么着 (zhèmezhe) means "this way / like this."

Stroke Order

me
zhe