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
药 – medicine/drug
要 – important/vital/to want/to ask for/will
也 – also
Study
要 is very similar to the character 想 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.