Chinese Coverbs and Prepositions - Free PDF and Flashcards

You’ve got the big words down-nouns, verbs, the flashy stuff. But without coverbs and prepositions, your Chinese sounds like a pile of bricks instead of a smooth road. These little connectors show where things happen, who you’re with, and how you do something. They turn ‘I eat’ into ‘I eat at home with chopsticks’-and that’s when you really start chatting.

This collection rounds up about 40 of the most useful coverbs and prepositions in simplified Chinese, from everyday workhorses like 在 and 用 to the ones that pop up in travel chats and WeChat messages. Each entry pairs a straightforward meaning with a natural example sentence, so you see exactly how the word behaves in a real sentence. No dusty textbook relics-just the practical vocabulary that makes your Chinese flow.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning	Example Pinyin
为	wèi	for (the benefit of)	Wèi nǐ gāoxìng.
为了	wèile	for the purpose of, in order to	wèile xuéxí
从	cóng	from (a place or time)	Wǒ cóng Běijīng lái.
以	yǐ	with; using	yǐ shūmiàn xíngshì
像	xiàng	like, similar to	xiàng māo yīyàng
关于	guānyú	about, regarding	guānyú zhè jiàn shì
凭	píng	by, with, on the basis of	píng jīngyàn
到	dào	to (a place or time)	Wǒ dào xuéxiào qù.
向	xiàng	towards (a person or direction)	Xiàng tā wèn hǎo.
和	hé	with (preposition)	hé wǒ
在	zài	at / in / on	Wǒ zài bàngōngshì gōngzuò.
在 zài	location	在 zài + place + verb
对	duì	toward	Tā duì xiǎogǒu hěn wēnróu.
对 duì	toward someone or something	对 duì + person/thing + adjective/verb
往	wǎng	towards (a direction)	Wǎng qián zǒu.
把	bǎ	marks object before verb (disposal)	bǎ shū dǎkāi
拿	ná	introduces an example; using ... as (in the pattern 拿...来说)
按	àn	according to	àn guīdìng
按照	ànzhào	according to; in accordance with	ànzhào guīdìng bànshì
据	jù	according to	jù wǒ suǒ zhī
替	tì	for, on behalf of	tì wǒ mǎi
朝	cháo	towards, facing	cháo zuǒ zǒu
根据	gēnjù	according to; based on	gēnjù tiānqì
比	bǐ	compared to (than)	bǐ wǒ gāo
沿	yán	along	yán hé zǒu

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