去 qù — to go, to go to

Meanings

1. 1

   to go, to go to

   To move away from where the speaker is. The destination follows directly, with no preposition: 我去学校, not 我去到学校.

   verb
2. 2

   to go and do something

   verb

   去 + verb states the purpose of going: 去买东西, 去看电影.

Example sentences

• 我下午去学校。/我下午去學校。Wǒ (third tone, dipping) xiàwǔ (fourth tone, falling) qù (fourth tone, falling) xuéxiào. (second tone, rising)···

  I’m going to school this afternoon.

• 你想去哪儿？/你想去哪兒？Nǐ (third tone, dipping) xiǎng (third tone, dipping) qù (fourth tone, falling) nǎr? (third tone, dipping)···

  Where do you want to go?

Common mistakes

• Not quite我去中国明天。

  Correct我明天去中国。

  Time words come before the verb in Chinese, normally right after the subject or at the very start of the sentence — never trailing at the end.

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