201 Mandarin Chinese Verbs: Compounds and Phrases for Everyday Usage

(back cover)
Learning Mandarin Chinese Becomes Easier
With This Helpful Guide to Verbs and Their Compounds

The 201 most common Mandarin Chinese verbs, one verb per page

Both the Chinese character and its English infinitive form printed at the top of each page

Compounds and exemplary phrases presented for each verb

Pronunciation for each phrase presented phonetically in "pinyin"--the Roman alphabet

An enlightening explanatory essay discusses Mandarin Chinese verb usage

Appendices list Chinese characters in both traditional and simplified forms
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This valuable language reference book presents 201 of the most often-used Mandarin Chinese monosyllabic verbs, with compounds and phrases for each verb. This title departs from Barron's more typical "201/501 Verbs " books in that it does not present conjugation tables. Chinese verbs cannot be conjugated because they do not change to indicate tense, person, or number. This book presents each verb, one verb per page, with both its Chinese character and its English infinitive form printed at the top of the page. Examples of common verb compounds are then presented in exemplary phrases with Chinese characters. Pronunciation for each phrase is given in the Roman alphabet (pinyin) and their meaning is given in English. The authors open this book with an enlightening introduction that explains Mandarin Chinese verb usage. They also provide extensive appendices at the end of the book, listing Chinese characters in both regular and simplified forms.