1000 Most Common Chinese Words For Beginners: Lesson 12

In this twelfth lesson of our “1000 Most Common Chinese Words For Beginners” Course, we will learn another group of the 1000 Most Common Chinese Words, which contains the following 20 words and phrases that are very useful for daily Chinese conversations:

• 多久 duō jiǔ ▸ how long
• 小时 xiǎoshí ▸ n. hour
• 网上 wǎngshàng ▸ n. (the scope that is on) the Internet
• 上网 shàngwǎng ▸ v. phr. to go on the Internet
• 不行 bù xíng ▸ not okay
• 吧 ba ▸ p. used at the end of a question to give the original question a speculative, estimative tone
• 坐 zuò ▸ v. to take (+vehicle)
• 的 de ▸ p. descriptive particle
• 眼睛 yǎnjing ▸ n. eye
• 想 xiǎng ▸ v. to miss; to think of
• 男 nán ▸ adj. / n. male
• 女 nǚ ▸ adj. / n. female
• 用 yòng ▸ v. to use
• 厨房 chúfáng ▸ n. kitchen
• 红色 hóngsè ▸ n. the color of red
• 茶 chá ▸ n. tea
• 裤子 kùzi ▸ n. pants
• 看到 kàndào ▸ v. to see
• 这儿 zhèr ▸ pron. here
• 那儿 nàr ▸ pron. there