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They go school

他们去学校。

tā men qù xué xiào

Natural English

They are going to school.

A basic movement-to-place sentence.

Sentence Category Movement
Sentence Type Standardized Expression
Level Basic

Token Mapping

  1. 1
    English Token
    they
    Chinese Unit
    他们
    Pinyin
    tā men
    Linked Word
    they - 他们
  2. 2
    English Token
    go
    Chinese Unit
    去
    Pinyin
    qù
    Linked Word
    go - 去
  3. 3
    English Token
    school
    Chinese Unit
    学校
    Pinyin
    xué xiào
    Linked Word
    school - 学校

Sentence Structure

Chinese Order
他们 / 去 / 学校
Chinglish Order
they / go / school
Natural English Order
They are going to school.

Sentence Analysis

A basic movement-to-place sentence.

Sentence Analysis

Chinese semantic order 他们 / 去 / 学校 maps to They / go / school without reordering. School is a valid Place target for the primary go profile. Natural English commonly inserts are going and to; these grammatical additions do not create Chinglish tokens.

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Standard Notes

Standard Status
Standard
Usage Context
Official candidate sentence for editorial review.
Comprehensibility
Understandable with context

Related Words

they 他们 tā men go 去 qù school 学校 xué xiào