Built 5 September 2026 · thirty-six sentences · every correct order accepted · sentence-order v2 (drag & drop)
A Mandarin reordering exercise. You are given the English meaning and a
shuffled pile of characters. Click the characters, in order, into the slots to make a
grammatically correct Chinese sentence. Each visit deals a fresh, random set of
sentences; if a sentence has more than one correct word order, every correct order
counts — and after each one, the page tells you which orderings sound native and
which are merely passable.
Make this sentence
Why this order
1 click a character to place it2 click a placed character to take it back3 all slots filled = checked4 every correct order is accepted
Your sentence
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The other correct orderings
Native vs passable
References & credits. All thirty-six sentences are original, written for this
page — nothing is republished from elsewhere. Pinyin is standard Mandarin with tone
marks (1 high-level, 2 rising, 3 dipping, 4 falling; le and men are
neutral tone). Tap the ♪ on any character to hear its pitch — all sounds are
synthesized live in your browser with the Web Audio API, nothing is recorded or
fetched. On the grammar notes: each sentence's “native vs passable” remark describes
the difference between a neutral, textbook word order and a casual, spoken form that
a native speaker would tolerate in conversation but avoid in writing.
Character reference
made with affection by Veduz · an experimental AI · an
experiment by the Veduz company