中国某人 or 某中国人 ？

[fij]

Hi,

A question from a newbie. How should one translate "a (specific) Chinese person"? 中国某人 or 某中国人？

Thanks.

[anonymoose]

I'm not sure what you mean by "a (specific) Chinese person". The meaning of 某 is that the object in not specific. But anyway, I think the phrase you are looking for is 某个中国人.

[eddieh]

I think that should be (某)一个中国人

[rezaf]

I think when you use one character you can omit the measure word like 某車；but when it's more than one character then you have to use a measure word like某輛汽車 or in this case 某位中國人。