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HSK 2 Week 25: Words 271-275

Here are your worksheets for Week 25 of My HSK Dictionary 2.

Our words this week: 

(Click on each of the Chinese words below to take a look.)

眼睛 – eye

羊肉 – mutton/lamb meat

– medicine/drug

– important/vital/to want/to ask for/will 

– also

Study

要 is very similar to the character as they can both mean ‘to want’. However, both also have different uses. 想 can mean ‘to miss’, for example, 我想你。 I miss you.

To use 要 as ‘to want’, use the sentence pattern:

Subject + 要 + Noun

你要咖啡吗? Do you want coffee?

When 想 and 要 come before a verb, their meanings a slightly different. 想 is a polite ‘ would like’, whereas 要 is more forceful, meaning ‘want to’.

For example, 

我要睡觉。 I want to sleep.

我也想试试。 I would also like to try.

My HSK Dictionary 2 Week 25