Grammar gives you the structure you need to build clear, natural Chinese sentences.
You can study these lessons in order or choose the grammar points you need most.
Each lesson explains the structure and usage through practical examples, pinyin, word-for-word translation, full translation, and AI audio. You will also practice through:
• Word order exercises — to help you build correct Chinese sentence structure
• Translation practice — to help you produce complete sentences
• Listening practice — to improve your listening comprehension
Repeat the lessons and key examples until you can use them naturally. If you are new to Chinese grammar, start with the quick guide below.
Each lesson goes far beyond a simple grammar introduction. It is designed to help you truly understand and apply the pattern. Choose how deeply to study or review each lesson based on your current goal: Understand the Grammar → Master the Pattern → Use It Fluently.
Note:
- 🌟 Newly added: These lessons were added to this course to reflect updated HSK content or provide useful foundations.
- Optional: These points are not listed as grammar targets in the HSK 3.0 syllabus. They appear only as vocabulary in the new textbooks, but they remain practical language points worth learning.
🔹 Module 1: Build Essential Chinese Sentences
Learn to identify and describe people or things, express possession, make negative statements, ask simple yes/no questions, and make polite requests.
- 1.1 “是” — Say what something is (A is B) Use this to identify people and things.
- 1.2 Optional“叫” — Say your name Use this to say what someone is called.
- 1.3 Optional“很 + adj” — Describe things (very / quite) Use this to make simple adjective sentences sound natural.
- 1.4 “有” — Say “have” / “there is” Use this to say “have” or “there is / there are.”
- 1.5 Optional“不” — Say no / not Use this to say “not” or “do not.”
- 1.6 “吗” — Ask yes/no questions Use this to turn a statement into a yes/no question.
- 1.7 “呢” — Keep a question/topic going Use this to ask “what about...?” when the topic is already clear.
- 1.8 Optional“请” — Make polite requests Use this to ask someone to do something politely.
🔹 Module 2: Ask About People, Things, Places, and Quantities
Learn question words and measure words for asking about people, things, places, choices, quantities, prices, and methods.
- 2.1 Optional“什么” — Ask about things (what) Use this to ask “what?”
- 2.2 Optional“谁” — Ask about people (who) Use this to ask “who?”
- 2.3 Measure words (one person / one cup) Use this to count people and things correctly.
- 2.4 Optional“哪 / 哪个” — Ask “which one” Use this to ask “which?”
- 2.5 Optional“哪儿” + Serial Verbs — Ask Where Someone Goes Use this to ask about places and form “go + place + action” sentences.
- 2.6 Optional“几” — Ask small numbers (how many) Use this to ask age, dates, weekdays, or small quantities.
- 2.7 Optional“多少” — Ask About Quantity & Price Use this to ask about larger or unknown quantities and prices.
- 2.8 “怎么” — Ask how to do something Use this to ask how to do something or how someone goes somewhere.
- 2.9 “怎么样” — Ask for opinions (how is it) Use this to ask “how is it?” or “what do you think?”
- 2.10 “多 + adj” — Ask About Degree Use this to ask how big, old, tall, far, or expensive something is.
- 2.11 🌟 Affirmative-Negative Questions — “A-not-A?” Use this to ask yes/no questions with 是不是、有没有、去不去, or 好不好.
🔹 Module 3: Show Possession, Change, Completion, and Tone
Learn to show possession, describe changes and completed actions, choose between 不 and 没, and add a natural spoken tone.
- 3.1 “的” — Show description & possession Use this to say “my book,” “his teacher,” or “the red one.”
- 3.2 “了①” — Show a Change Use this to show that something is different now.
- 3.3 “了②” — Show a completed action Use this to say an action happened or was completed.
- 3.4 Optional“不” vs “没” — present vs past negation Use this to choose the right negative form.
- 3.5 “吧①” — Make Suggestions / Soften Tone Use this to make suggestions sound softer.
- 3.6 OptionalModal Particles (啊 / 呀 / 哇 / 吧) Use this to make short sentences sound more natural in conversation.
- 3.7 🌟 Sentence-Ending Particle “呢” — Emphasis & Persuasion Use this to add emphasis, persuasion, or an ongoing feeling to a statement.
🔹 Module 4: Talk About Numbers, Dates, and Time
Learn numbers, nominal sentences, clock time, dates, time-word placement, and expressions with 前 and 后.
- 4.1 🌟 Chinese Numbers & Ordinal Numbers with “第” Use this to build numbers, distinguish 二 and 两, and form ordinal numbers with 第.
- 4.2 Nominal sentences (no “to be” verb needed) Use this to make simple time, age, and identity statements without 是.
- 4.3 Clock Time & Word Order — 几点 / 什么时候 / 点 / 分 Use this to ask and tell the time and place time expressions correctly.
- 4.4 Date Expressions — 年 / 月 / 日 / 星期 Use this to express years, months, dates, weekdays, hours, minutes, and seconds.
- 4.5 Optional“前 / 后” — Before & After Use this to say before or after a time or event.
🔹 Module 5: Talk About Location and Ongoing Actions
Learn to say where someone or something is, where an action happens, and what someone is doing now.
🔹 Module 6: Express Ability, Permission, Possibility, and Plans
Learn modal verbs for learned skills, ability, permission, possibility, wants, and future plans.
- 6.1 “会①” — Can (learned ability) Use this to say someone has learned how to do something.
- 6.2 “能 / 可以” — Can, be able to, or may Use this to express ability, possibility, permission, or situational limits.
- 6.3 Optional“会②” — Will (future / likelihood) Use this to say something will probably happen.
- 6.4 “想” — Want to do something Use this to say what someone wants to do.
- 6.5 🌟 “要” — Plans & Intentions Use this to say what someone plans, intends, or is going to do.
🔹 Module 7: Add Scope and Degree
Learn common adverbs that express addition, total scope, and different levels of intensity.
🔹 Module 8: Connect People, Objects, and Actions
Learn double-object sentences with 给 and 问, and use 和 to connect nouns or express “with.”
🔹 Module 9: Use More Natural Everyday Chinese
Learn basic phone expressions, separable verbs, and short or polite actions with Verb + 一下.
- 9.1 OptionalMaking a phone call (basic expressions) Use this to make simple phone-call sentences.
- 9.2 🌟 Separable Verbs (离合词 líhécí) Use this to understand verbs that can separate around objects or particles.
- 9.3 🌟 “Verb + 一下” — Short, Polite Actions Use this to express a brief action or soften a request.