grammar - 是+. . . +的 structure in describing colours - Chinese Language . . . Incidentally, this may help explain why in Chinese we say 我的车，他的房子，你的老师，我的朋友，but it is odd to say *我的爸爸 or *我的妈妈 In fact, a native speaker would most likely say 我爸爸 or 我妈妈, because we don't consider 爸爸 or 妈妈 as an occurrence among others in a class: they are unique