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Intermediate Grammar Clinic HSK 4 Required 8 words

Comparisons with 不如 and 相比

Focused practice for Comparisons with 不如 and 相比 with support vocabulary and targeted demos.

Goal

Learners can recognize the pattern, explain its role, and produce two new sentences.

Write two original sentences with this pattern, then replace one noun or verb and keep the grammar stable.

Focus

grammar clinic pattern practice support vocabulary

Useful examples

这里的风景不如那里美。

Practice sentence from the linked grammar guide.

这个句子里的不如让意思更清楚。

The 不如 in this sentence makes the meaning clearer.

Comparisons with A不如B and 跟……相比

Say “A isn’t as good as B” with 不如 and “compared with…” with 跟……相比, as in 我的汉语不如他好.

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Practice sentences

我的汉语不如他好。

My Chinese isn’t as good as his.

Means “not as good as”; the adjective comes after the second item.

Try a few cards from this module

不如
bù rú
Meanings
not equal to not as good as

Module word list

Word Pinyin Meaning Dictionary
不如 bù rú not equal to Dictionary
语法 yǔ fǎ grammar Dictionary
句子 jù zi sentence Dictionary
结构 jié gòu structure Dictionary
表达 biǎo dá to express; to convey Dictionary
例子 lì zi case Dictionary
意思 yì si idea Dictionary
练习 liàn xí to practice Dictionary