好(hǎo) - good, well, OK 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

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

不但...而且 in Mandarin: Not Only A But Also B (不仅, 还, 也, 并且)

Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page

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

Mandarin Complements: 得 for Manner, Directional Endings, and How to Attach a Result to a Verb

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

Mandarin Conditionals: 如果, 要是, 的话 and the 就 That Finishes the Sentence

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

Figurative Directional Complements in Mandarin: 起来, 下去 and 出来 Beyond Up, Down and Out

Formal Mandarin Connectives: 然而, 因此, 于是 and 尽管 (The Written Register)

Mandarin Four-Character Idioms (四字格): The Shape, Not the List

Mandarin Greetings and Survival Phrases: Say Something Today

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

就 (jiù) vs 才 (cái) in Mandarin: Sooner Than Expected, Later Than Expected

Mandarin Negation: 不 (bù) vs 没 (méi), and Why 不有 Does Not Exist

The Spoken Passives 让 (ràng), 叫 (jiào) and 给 (gěi): What People Say Instead of 被

Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)

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

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)

Mandarin Rhetorical Questions: 难道, 不是...吗, 何必 and 岂不

Mandarin Sentence-Final Particles: 吧, 呢, 啊, 嘛, 吗 and the Final 了

The Mandarin 所 (suǒ) Family: 所有, 所谓, 所 + Verb, and the 为...所 Passive

The Three de in Mandarin: 的, 得, and 地 and How to Tell Them Apart

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

Mandarin Sentence Structure: Word Order, Topic-Comment and the 把 Construction

无论 and 不管 in Mandarin: The No Matter What Frame (无论/不管 ... 都/也)

Mandarin 性 (xìng) and 化 (huà): Building Abstract Nouns and '-ise' Verbs

Yes-No Questions in Mandarin: 吗 (ma), Echo Answers, and the Bounce-Back 呢 (ne)

The Mandarin 以 (yǐ) Family: 以为, 以及, 以便, 以免, 以来 and 以...为...

又 (yòu) vs 再 (zài) vs 还 (hái) in Mandarin: The Three Ways to Say 'Again'

The Mandarin 于 (yú) Family: 对于, 关于, 由于, 至于, 属于, 位于, 终于

Mandarin 之 (zhī): 之一, 之间, 之后, 之中, 总之 and the Written Ancestor of 的