Most Common Chinese Verbs: Free PDF and Flashcards

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Word	Pinyin	Type	Meaning
服务	fúwù	Other	to serve/service/CL:項\|项[xiang4]
本来	běnlái	Other	original/originally/at first/it goes without saying/of course
杀	shā	Other	to kill/to murder/to attack/to weaken or reduce/to smart (dialect)/(used after a verb) extremely
来	lái	Other	)/ever since (as in 自古以來\|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2])/for the past (amount of time)/(prefix) the coming ...
来 lái	to come	Other	你几点来？Nǐ jǐ diǎn lái?
构成	gòuchéng	Other	to constitute/to form/to compose/to make up/to configure (computing)
查	chá	Other	to research/to check/to investigate/to examine/to refer to/to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)
根	gēn	Other	/radical (chemistry)
检查	jiǎnchá	Other	inspection/to examine/to inspect/CL:次[ci4]
欢迎	huānyíng	Other	to welcome/welcome
欣赏	xīnshǎng	Other	to appreciate
欺负	qīfù	Other	to bully
歌唱	gēchàng	Other	to sing
死	sǐ	Other	to die/impassable/uncrossable/inflexible/rigid/extremely/damned
比	bǐ	Other	in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
比方说	bǐfāngshuō	Other	for example
比赛	bǐsài	Other	,次[ci4]/to compete
比较	bǐjiào	Other	to compare/to contrast/comparatively/relatively/quite/comparison
毕业	bìyè	Other	graduation/to graduate/to finish school
求	qiú	Other	to seek/to look for/to request/to demand/to beseech
污染	wūrǎn	Other
沉/沈	chén	Other	to submerge/to immerse/to sink/to keep down/to lower/to drop/deep/profound/heavy
沟通	gōutōng	Other	to join
没	méi	Other	(negative prefix for verbs) have not
泡	pào	Other	bubble

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