Chinese Prepositions

If you're trying to learn Chinese Prepositions which is also called Mandarin, check our courses about time and place prepositions and and demonstrative pronouns... to help you with your Chinese grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Chinese. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!

Chinese Prepositions

Learning the Chinese Prepositions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Chinese language. But first we need to know what the role of Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Chinese.

Chinese prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Here are some examples:

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Prepositions in Chinese has a logical pattern. Locate the Prepositions above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Mandarin.

List of Prepositions in Chinese

Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Chinese placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Chinese vocabulary.

Time place and demonstrative pronouns have a very important role in Chinese, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with the Mandarin Prepositions, you might want to check the rest of our Chinese lessons here: Learn Chinese. Don't forget to bookmark this page.