Chinese Conversation · Level 16
90 words
Chinese word
去过
Pronunciation
Pinyinqù guò
Meaning
- verbvisit
Example
你去过北京吗？nǐ qù guò běi jīng ma
Have you ever visited Beijing?
More examples
小时候我去过北京。xiǎo shí hòu wǒ qù guò běi jīng
When I was a child, I visited Beijing.
Core concept
Places or activities enter a person's past-experience record, while the time of the experience remains unspecified.
Common phrases
去过北京qù guò běi jīng
have been to Beijing
去过这儿qù guò zhèr
have been here
去过那家店qù guò nà jiā diàn
have been to that store
Similar words
去qù: Going from one place to another now or later.
到过dào guò: Having gone to and arrived at a place before, without saying when.
来过lái guò: Having come to where the speaker is or toward the speaker before, without saying when.
Definition in Chinese
表示曾经去过某地或做过某事，侧重经历的存在而非具体时间。biǎo shì céng jīng qù guò mǒu dì huò zuò guò mǒu shì cè zhòng jīng lì de cún zài ér fēi jù tǐ shí jiān
Word origin
去 (qù, "go") + 过 (guò, "pass through") combines a movement verb with an experiential aspect marker, so the phrase records that the event has occurred without fixing its time.
Usage tips
- A yes-or-no experience question often ends with 吗 (ma, "question particle"), while 没去过 (méi qùguò, "have not gone") gives the negative answer.