HSK 2Lesson 15
This lesson follows Bai Jiayue planning another trip to Beijing and Li Wen talking about going home, tickets, the airport, and flying.
Talk about travel plans after an exam and describe how long it has been since someone returned home.
The learner will be able to understand and talk about travel plans. They will be able to understand and use complements of frequency to express the number of times an action or an event occurs, and master the use of the "有" sentence (2) to indicate reaching a certain quantity.
Part 1 · 12 new words
Contains 2 words
full name
high school
Contains 6 words
to go abroad
entrance ticket
Contains 4 words
road; way
to fly
Part 2 · 13 phrases
请大家写上姓名。
Please write your full name.
我很想去中国。
I really want to go to China.
虽然去过一次，但是很想再去一次。
Although I have been there once, I really want to go one more time.
我现在可以出国了。
Now I can go abroad.
我要再去一次北京。
I want to go to Beijing one more time.
我想再吃一次烤鸭。
I want to eat roast duck one more time.
我还上网买了颐和园的门票。
I also bought Summer Palace entrance tickets online.
Part 3 · 4 conversations
When exam time ends, Bai Jiayue notices that her name is incomplete and fixes it before handing in her paper.
王老师Teacher Wang
考试时间到了。交卷前请大家看看姓名写对了吗。
Exam time is up. Before handing in your papers, please check whether you wrote your full names correctly.
白家月Bai Jiayue
老师，我的姓名少写了一个字。
Part 4 · 3 points
“有” Sentence (2)
Use 有yǒu + time length + 没méi + action + 了le to say how long an action has not happened up to now.
Elapsed time
Use 有yǒu before a time length to show how long the situation has reached.
to go out; to leave home
airport
plane ticket
Summer Palace
to seem; to be like
bird
我的高中同学就在颐和园上班。
My high school classmate works at the Summer Palace.
出门的时候，多个朋友多条路。
When you are out, one more friend means one more way.
你有一年没回国了吧？
You haven't gone back home for a year, right?
我送你去机场。
I will take you to the airport.
这次的机票有点儿贵。
This plane ticket is a little expensive.
我们好像小鸟。
We are like little birds.
Teacher, I left one character out of my full name.
王老师Teacher Wang
写好再交卷。交卷后可以出门。
Finish writing it before handing in your paper. You may leave after handing it in.
白家月Bai Jiayue
好，我写好了，现在交卷。
Okay, I have fixed it. I am handing in my paper now.
Bai Jiayue wants to revisit Beijing but does not know how to reach the Summer Palace, so Li Wen offers a useful contact.
白家月Bai Jiayue
考完试了，我想再去一次北京。
The exam is over, and I want to visit Beijing one more time.
李文Li Wen
你想去哪儿玩？
Where do you want to go?
白家月Bai Jiayue
我已经买了颐和园的门票，但是不知道怎么走。
I've already bought a ticket to the Summer Palace, but I don't know how to get there.
李文Li Wen
我的高中同学在那儿上班，我让他告诉你怎么走。
My high school classmate works there. I'll ask him to tell you how to get there.
白家月Bai Jiayue
太好了，请他给我打电话吧。
Great. Please ask him to call me.
Bai Jiayue corrects her memory of Li Wen's last trip home and asks about his next return.
白家月Bai Jiayue
李文，你有一年没回国了吧？
Li Wen, you haven't gone back home for a year, right?
李文Li Wen
不到一年。我六月的时候回去了一次。
Not quite a year. I went back once in June.
白家月Bai Jiayue
对，我记得了。你今年还想回去吗？
Right, I remember now. Do you want to go back again this year?
李文Li Wen
想。我正在看机票，考完试再回去一次。
Yes. I am looking at plane tickets now, and I will go back once more after the exam.
Li Wen and Bai Jiayue discover that their Friday flights to Beijing leave at the same time and decide to travel to the airport together.
李文Li Wen
我星期五坐飞机回北京过年，有点儿想家。
I'm flying back to Beijing for New Year on Friday. I miss home a little.
白家月Bai Jiayue
我也星期五去北京。你的飞机几点飞？
I'm also going to Beijing on Friday. What time does your flight leave?
李文Li Wen
上午十点。你的呢？
Ten in the morning. What about yours?
白家月Bai Jiayue
也是十点。那我们一起去机场吧。
Mine is also at ten. Then let's go to the airport together.
In 有一年没回国了yǒu yì nián méi huíguó le, the speaker is not possessing a year; the sentence says the time without returning home has reached one year.
In sentences
A year since returning home
有一年没回国了。
It has been a year since going back home.
有一年yǒu yì nián gives the elapsed span, while 没回国了méi huíguó le says the return has not happened up to now.
More than half a year
有半年多没回去了。
It has been more than half a year since going back.
半年多bànnián duō is the elapsed time, and 没回去了méi huíqu le says the return has not happened during that span.
Possession contrast
我有机票。
I have a plane ticket.
This earlier 有yǒu sentence states possession; it does not measure time without an action.
你有一年没回国了吧？
You haven't gone back home for a year, right?
现在有半年多没回去了。
Now it has been more than half a year since I went back.
我有两个月没看电影了。
I haven't watched a movie for two months.
In 你有一年没回国了吧nǐ yǒu yì nián méi huíguó le ba, 有一年yǒu yì nián gives the elapsed span, 没回国méi huíguó names the action that did not occur during it, and final 了le links that span to the present. This is not the earlier possession or existence meaning of 有yǒu, as in 我有机票wǒ yǒu jīpiào, 'I have a plane ticket.' Here the whole frame means that a period without the action has now reached the stated length.
Complement of Frequency (1)
Put a number plus 次cì after the action to say how many times it happened.
One completed time
Use 一次yí cì after the action to count one occurrence.
In 回去了一次huíqù le yí cì, 一次yí cì counts the return.
In sentences
Went back once
我六月的时候回去了一次。
I went back once in June.
回去了一次huíqù le yí cì counts the return as one completed action.
我六月的时候回国一次。
I returned home once in June.
我吃了一次北京烤鸭。
I ate Beijing roast duck once.
回去了一次huíqù le yí cì says Li Wen went back once: 一次yí cì counts occurrences of the action, not how long it lasted. Put the frequency complement after the verb; completed 了le, when used, comes before the count. With a noun object, the count can come before that object, as in 吃了一次烤鸭chī le yí cì kǎoyā, 'ate roast duck once.' This differs from a duration complement such as 飞了两个小时fēi le liǎng ge xiǎoshí, which measures time rather than repetitions.
Complement of Frequency (2)
Use 再zài before the action and 一次yí cì after it to say one more time.
One more time
Use 再zài before the action and 一次yí cì after it.
In 想再去一次北京xiǎng zài qù yí cì Běijīng, 再zài marks repetition and 一次yí cì counts one time.
In sentences
Go one more time
想再去一次北京。
I want to go to Beijing one more time.
再去一次北京zài qù yí cì Běijīng puts 一次yí cì after 去qù.
Eat one more time
我想再吃一次烤鸭。
I want to eat roast duck one more time.
再吃一次烤鸭zài chī yí cì kǎoyā uses the same repeat-once pattern.
Count once without repeating
我想去一次北京。
I want to go to Beijing once.
Without 再zài, 一次yí cì counts one trip but does not present it as another trip.
我要再去一次北京。
I want to go to Beijing one more time.
考完试，我想再看一次这个电影。
After the exam, I want to watch this movie one more time.
Use 再zài before an action that is expected or wanted in the future, and use a frequency complement such as 一次yí cì after the verb to count the planned repeat. 再去一次北京zài qù yí cì Běijīng therefore means 'go to Beijing one more time.' Without 再zài, 去一次北京qù yí cì Běijīng only counts one trip; it does not say that the trip repeats an earlier one.
我六月的时候回国一次，现在有半年多没回去了，有点儿想家。
I went back home once in June, and now it has been more than half a year since I went back, so I miss home a little.
回国action一次number of times
Why it matters · 回国一次huíguó yí cì counts one return home.
