Actions in a row

Structure

Examples

• 我要回家吃饭。
  Wǒ yào huí jiā chī fàn.
  I want to go home and eat.
• 你要去超市买东西吗？
  Nǐ yào qù chāo shì mǎi dōng xī ma?
  Are you going to the supermarket to buy things?
• 你打电话告诉他了吗？
  Nǐ dǎ diàn huà gào sù tā le ma?
  Did you call and tell him?
• 我们要坐飞机去美国。
  Wǒ men yào zuò fēi jī qù měi guó.
  We are going to take an airplane to go to the USA.
• 老板下周去北京开会。
  Lǎo bǎn xià zhōu qù běi jīng kāi huì.
  Next week the boss will go to Beijing to have a meeting.

Words that use this

• 回huíto circle; to go back; to turn around; to answer; to return; to revolve; Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); time; classifier for acts of a play; section or chapter (of a classic book)
• 告诉gào suto press charges; to file a complaint
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文; abbr. for 开本, book format
• 买mǎito buy; to purchase
• 去qùto go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
• 刷shuāto brush; to paint; to daub; to paste up; to skip class (of students); to fire from a job
• 洗xǐto wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording)
• 坐zuòto sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit; variant of 座
• 做zuòto make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
• 看kānto look after; to take care of
• 打dǎ(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
• 过guosurname Guo