睡觉 VS 困

[Bastille]

Could anyone help me differentiate the two?

Oh，and could someone check this:

Is it proper to say 你爱困 or 你爱睡觉?

I'm get really confused when my mother speaks in the 咱们语 dialect of the Philippines.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[andyshao]

In chinese,困 means "want eyes to rest or relax".but 睡觉 means "to sleep".

So if you want to go to sleep , you can say :“我困了(I am tired or my eyes is tired..)or 我想睡觉了(I want to sleep)"

In other words , 困 is a feeling.but 睡觉 is a action.That is why you cannot say :"我爱困(I love tired.)",you should say :"我爱睡觉。(I love to sleep.).

This is just the basis Chinese.Between Chinese the word 爱 has an another meaning of."always easily" So "我爱困" can also translate to " I always easily feel tired.

Hope it can help you.

[vampire]

困 sleepy, adjective

睡觉 sleep, verb

you can say 我现在很困,我想去睡觉了

I want to go to bed, is that what you mean? 我爱困 or 我爱睡觉 both sound weird. maybe your mother is speaking some kind of dialect rather than mandarin?

[chaxiu]

Hey,

Just wondering does your mother speak Hokkien (閩南話)？

ai2-khun3 (愛睏) in Mandarin means 想睡覺.

Does your mother say something like:

Li1 e ai2-khun3 be3?

Only guessing

Chaxiu

[Bastille]

Yup, my mom speaks the fukien dialect. However, the one spoken in the Philippines is so different from the mainland that it sounds unintelligible to the ones from the mainland.

BTW:

She says it something like: Di ya ai kun lo.

[andyshao]

why?

[creamyhorror]

When I saw this I immediately thought of khun in Hokkien ("sleep"). In Mandarin 'sleep' is 睡觉; you shouldn't confuse your mother's dialect with it.

[Bastille]

Ok, thanks for all your help. At least I'll be able to differentiate some mandarin words from fukien ones.