Mandarin · Chapter 8

Question formation in full

10 vocabulary lessons, 1 grammar primer, 1 story milestone.

  1. Lesson 1 · Words 501-510

    Words 501 to 510

    501一件one (piece/item/matter)numeral
    502样子appearance, look, manner; stylenoun
    503to fall over, to pour; contrary to expectation; upside downverb
    504电影movie, filmnoun
    505谈谈to have a chat, to talk a bitverb
    506危险dangerous, dangeradjective
    507开心happy, joyful, delightedadjective
    508别的other, else, other thingspronoun
    509这件this (piece/item/matter)pronoun
    510才能talent, ability; only then cannoun
  2. Lesson 2 · Words 511-520

    Words 511 to 520

    511闭嘴shut up, close your mouthverb
    512just (now), right in the middle of; upright, correct, mainadverb
    513进行to carry out, to conduct, to proceedverb
    514照片photograph, photo, picturenoun
    515speech, words, talk; languagenoun
    516刚刚just now, a moment agoadverb
    517而已that's all, nothing moreparticle
    518完成to complete, to finish, to accomplishverb
    519who, whoeverpronoun
    520方式way, method, manner, modenoun
  3. Lesson 3 · Words 521-530

    Words 521 to 530

    521做到to achieve, to manage to do, to accomplishverb
    522dad, father (informal)noun
    523因为because, due toconjunction
    524声音sound, voice, noisenoun
    525第一次the first timenoun
    526看来it seems, it looks like, apparentlyverb
    527只能can only, have no choice but toadverb
    528現在now, at present, currentlynoun
    529太太wife, Mrs., madamnoun
    530下去to go down; to continue, to keep goingverb
  4. Lesson 4 · Words 531-540

    Words 531 to 540

    531绝对absolutely, definitely; absoluteadverb
    532处理to handle, to deal with, to processverb
    533欢迎welcome; to welcomeverb
    534眼睛eye, eyesnoun
    535通过to pass through; to pass (an exam/law); by means of, throughverb
    536行动action, movement; to take actionnoun
    537what (dialectal/colloquial)pronoun
    538感到to feel, to senseverb
    539最近recently, lately; the nearestnoun
    540to listen, to hearverb
  5. Lesson 5 · Words 541-550

    Words 541 to 550

    541各位everyone, ladies and gentlemen, all of youpronoun
    542这边this side, over herenoun
    543to stay, to remain; to treatverb
    544to fall, to drop; (result complement) away, offverb
    545不好意思excuse me, sorry (mild); to feel embarrassedinterjection
    546to guess, to speculateverb
    547使to cause, to make; to use, to employverb
    548作为as, in the capacity of; conduct, achievementpreposition
    549at, in, on, from, to (literary preposition)preposition
    550dognoun
  6. Lesson 6 · Words 551-560

    Words 551 to 560

    551容易easy, simple; easilyadjective
    552沒有don't have, there is no; have not (done)verb
    553直到until, up to, not untilpreposition
    554to beg, to request, to seek; requestverb
    555比赛competition, match, game; to competenoun
    556像是looks like, seems to be, as ifverb
    557(particle in 什么 / 这么 / 那么); what; so, like thisparticle
    558from, since; to follow, to complypreposition
    559to pull, to drag; to play (string instruments)verb
    560to clap, to pat; to take (a photo/video)verb
  7. Lesson 8 · Words 561-570

    Words 561 to 570

    561更好better, even betteradjective
    562once, formerly; have (done) beforeadverb
    563有趣interesting, fun, amusingadjective
    564就算even if, even though, even supposingconjunction
    565活着to be alive, to live (ongoing)verb
    566不会won't, will not; cannot, unable toverb
    567努力to work hard, to strive; hard-working, diligentverb
    568帮忙to help, to give a hand, to lend assistanceverb
    569留下to stay behind, to remain; to leave (something) behindverb
    570同意to agree, to consent, to approveverb
  8. Lesson 9 · Words 571-580

    Words 571 to 580

    571参加to participate in, to attend, to joinverb
    572to win, to beatverb
    573死亡death, to dienoun
    574every, eachpronoun
    575上面above, on top, on the surfacenoun
    576结果result, outcome; as a result, consequentlynoun
    577消息news, information, messagenoun
    578要求to require, to demand; requirement, demandverb
    579理解to understand, to comprehend; understandingverb
    580曾经once, at one time, formerly, used toadverb
  9. Lesson 10 · Words 581-590

    Words 581 to 590

    581打开to open, to turn on, to switch onverb
    582收到to receive, to get (something sent)verb
    583照顾to take care of, to look afterverb
    584人类humanity, human beings, mankindnoun
    585主意idea, plan; decisionnoun
    586保持to maintain, to keep, to preserveverb
    587to become; to succeed; (result complement) into, successfullyverb
    588杰克Jack (given name transliteration)noun
    589存在to exist; existenceverb
    590to enter, to go in; to advanceverb
  10. Lesson 11 · Words 591-600

    Words 591 to 600

    591tall, high; loud (of sound)adjective
    592晚安good nightinterjection
    593确实indeed, truly, certainly; real, actualadverb
    594全部all, the whole, entirepronoun
    595to lean on, to rely on, to depend on; nearverb
    596to stay; dull, blank, stupid; stunnedverb
    597to rise, to get up; (directional complement) upverb
    598謝謝thank you, thanksinterjection
    599讨厌to dislike, to hate; annoying, disgustingverb
    600two (people), both, the two of themnumeral