LessonsHSK 1 · Lesson 10
HSK 1 · Lesson 10 of 15
Getting around
Going places: coming and going, ways to travel, and where you live. 18 words and 3 grammar points; tap the characters to hear them.
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📚 Words
- Hán-Việt khứ To go — to move away from where the speaker is.
- Hán-Việt lai To come — to move towards where the speaker is.
- Hán-Việt đáo To get to a place, or to reach a point in time.
- Hán-Việt hồi To return to the place you belong to or set out from, such as home or your own country.
- Hán-Việt tọa To sit; also to ride in a vehicle as a passenger, such as a bus, train, plane or taxi.
- Hán-Việt khai To open, and to switch on a machine or a light.
- Hán-Việt khai xa To drive: to be at the wheel of a car or other vehicle.
- Hán-Việt xa A vehicle on wheels; in everyday speech, a car.
- Hán-Việt xuất tô xa A taxi: a car with a driver that you pay to take you where you want to go.
- Hán-Việt hoả xa A train that runs on rails, carrying passengers or goods.
- Hán-Việt phi cơ An aeroplane, the machine that carries people and goods through the air.
- Hán-Việt thương điếm A shop or store, the general word for a place that sells goods to the public.
- Hán-Việt siêu thị A supermarket: a large self-service shop for food and household goods.
- Hán-Việt điếm A shop or business premises, and the usual ending of words for kinds of shop.
- Hán-Việt thư điếm A bookshop: a shop where books, and often stationery, are sold.
- Hán-Việt phạn điếm A restaurant, usually a proper sit-down one; in the names of big hotels, a hotel.
- Hán-Việt điện ảnh viện A cinema: a building where films are shown to an audience on a big screen.
- Hán-Việt trú To have your home somewhere, or to stay there for a time.
🧩 Grammar
来, 去, 到 and 回
去 is "to go (there)" and 来 "to come (here)" — which one depends on where the speaker is. 到 is "to arrive, to get to" and 回 "to go back": 回家 "to go home", 回国 "to go back to one's country". All four take the place directly, with no word for "to": 去商店 "go to the shop".
- When are you coming to China?
- We're here.
- I'm going back to my country next year.
Two verbs in a row
Chinese can line up two verbs with nothing between them. The first often says how you go, the second where: 坐出租车去 "go by taxi", 坐飞机回国 "fly home". Or the second says why you go: 去商店买东西 "go to the shop to buy things".
- I'm going by train.
- He's going to the supermarket to buy fruit.
Where you live: 住在
Where you live is 住在 + place: 你住在哪儿？ — 我住在中国。 "Where do you live? — I live in China."
- Where do you live?
- My friend lives behind the school.
🎯 Practice
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