1000 Most Common Chinese Words For Beginners: Lesson 16

In this sixteenth 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:

• 干什么 gàn shénme ▸ to do what (to ask about reason or purpose)
• 男人 nánrén ▸ n. man
• 女人 nǚrén ▸ n. woman
• 久等了 jiǔ děng le ▸ (you have) long waited; sorry to have kept you waiting
• 啊 a ▸ p. used at the end of a question to soften the tone
• 时候 shíhou ▸ n. time period; time point
• 经理 jīnglǐ ▸ n. manager
• 了 le ▸ p. modal particle marking “completion of action”
• 站 zhàn ▸ v. to stand
• 难过 nánguò ▸ adj. sad
• 里面 lǐmiàn ▸ n. inside; the inner or internal part
• 真 zhēn ▸ adv. really
• 找到 zhǎodào ▸ v. to find; to seek out
• 坐 zuò ▸ v. to sit
• 新 xīn ▸ adj. new
• 旧 jiù ▸ adj. old
• 水果 shuǐguǒ ▸ n. fruit
• 盘子 pánzi ▸ n. plate
• 这些 zhèxiē ▸ pron. these
• 那些 nàxiē ▸ pron. those