Small words, huge payoff. Chinese conjunctions are the thread that stitches your sentences together – without them, you’re just dropping loose bricks. They help you explain why, contrast ideas, add detail, and sound way more like a real speaker instead of a vocabulary robot.
This list hands you around 45 of the most practical Chinese conjunctions you’ll actually use, not the dusty ones from a textbook appendix. We’re talking words like 因为 (because), 但是 (but), and 所以 (so) – the everyday connectors that pop up in chats, emails, and street signs.
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| Connector | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不 | bù | (negative prefix); not; no |
| 不客气 | bù kè qi | you're welcome; impolite; rude |
| 东西 | dōng xi | thing; stuff; person |
| 个 | gè | variant of 個|个[gè] |
| 二 | èr | two; 2; stupid (Beijing dialect) |
| 会 | huì | can; be possible; be able to |
| 儿子 | ér zi | son |
| 八 | bā | eight; 8 |
| 几 | jǐ | how much; how many; several |
| 出租车 | chū zū chē | taxi; (Taiwan) rental car |
| 分钟 | fēn zhōng | minute |
| 北京 | Běi jīng | Beijing; capital of People's Republic of China; Peking |
| 吃 | chī | to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc) |
| 后面 | hòu mian | rear; back; behind |
| 和 | hé | and; together with; with |
| 喝 | hē | to drink; My goodness! |
| 回 | huí | to curve; to return; to revolve |
| 多 | duō | many; much; a lot of |
| 多少 | duō shao | how much; how many; which (number) |
| 大 | dà | big; huge; large |
| 好 | hǎo | good; well; proper |
| 家 | jiā | home; family; classifier for families or businesses |
| 对不起 | duì bu qǐ | unworthy; to let down; I'm sorry |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate; job |
| 很 | hěn | (adverb of degree); quite; very |
