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
用	yòng	using (a tool or method)	Yòng kuàizi chīfàn.
由	yóu	by (someone)	yóu lǎoshī juédìng
由于	yóuyú	due to, because of	yóuyú tiānqì
离	lí	distance from	lí zhèr hěn jìn
经过	jīngguò	through (a process), after	jīngguò tǎolùn
给	gěi	to	Tā gěi wǒ huí xiāoxi.
给 gěi	to / for someone	给 gěi + person + verb
被	bèi	passive marker (by)	bèi māma mà
让	ràng	to let or make someone do something (causative)	ràng tā
趁	chèn	while; taking advantage of (a situation)
跟	gēn	with	Wǒ gēn péngyou qù lǚxíng.
跟 gēn	with someone	跟 gēn + person + verb
通过	tōngguò	through; by means of	tōngguò xuéxí
除了	chúle	except, besides	chúle wǒ, dōu qù
靠	kào	relying on; by	kào qínfèn chénggōng

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