做(zuò) - to do, to make, to work as in Mandarin

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

Mandarin Causatives 使 (shǐ), 令 (lìng) and 让 (ràng): Making Someone Feel or Do Something

Mandarin 除了...以外: One Frame, Two Opposite Meanings

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

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

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

How to Say Even Though and Even If in Mandarin: 虽然, 即使, 就算 and 尽管

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 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 Modal Verbs: 会, 想, 要, 应该, 可以, 能 and the Future-Intent Words 打算, 准备

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

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

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

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

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

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