本(běn) - measure word for books; originally, this in Mandarin

Mandarin Adjectives as Stative Verbs: Why 'I Am Cold' Is 我冷, Not 我是冷

Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register

Approximation and Rounding in Mandarin: 左右, 大概, 差不多, 几 and 来 for About, Around and Roughly

Mandarin Aspect Markers: 了, 在/正在, 过 - the System That Replaces Tense

The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It

The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject

Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page

Mandarin Classifiers (Measure Words): 个, 本, 张, 只, 条, and the Rule That Every Counted Noun Needs One

Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs

Mandarin Comparatives: 比, 比较, 最, 跟…一样 and How to Say 'More', 'Most', 'Same As'

Compound Directional Complements in Mandarin: Verb + 起来, 下去, 过来, 出来 and Motion Relative to the Speaker

Concession in Mandarin: 虽然...还是/但是, 不过, and 还是 (Although, Even So, Nonetheless)

Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It

Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses

The Mandarin Durative 着 (zhe): Marking a State That Continues (门开着, 拿着书, 笑着说)

Mandarin Existential and Presentative Sentences: 有, 出现, 发生 and Why New Things Go After the Verb

The Experiential 过 (guò) in Mandarin: Saying You Have Ever Done Something

Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System

The Two 了 in Mandarin: Completion 了 After the Verb vs Change-of-State 了 at the End

Mandarin Location and Existence: 在 for Where, 有 for There Is, and the 上/下/里/外 Position Words

Mandarin Numbers, Time, Dates, and Currency: From 1 to 1,000,000, the 二/两 Split, and Time-Before-Verb

Mandarin Possession with 的 (de): My, Your, His, and When Mandarin Drops the Particle

Possession with 有 (yǒu): To Have, and Why It Is Never 不有

Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System

Mandarin Relative Clauses with 的 (de): How the Modifier Goes Before the Noun

Mandarin Requests and Imperatives: 请, 别, 不要, the Softening Particles 吧/啊, and Verb Reduplication

Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)

Serial Verb Constructions in Mandarin: 我去商店买东西 and Stacking Verbs in Sequence

The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened

Topic-Comment Structure in Mandarin: Fronting 这本书我看过 and Why Word Order Bends

Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything