回

watyamacallit

January 21, 2011, 08:54 AM posted in I Have a Question

Other than special prepositions such as 回去, must 回 always be followed by a location, for example 回家?

Can 回 instead be followed by another verb, with the meaning 'to return to an activity'? For example, can you say 我应该回学中文。If not, how would I say 'I should get back to studying Chinese'?

watyamacallit

February 27, 2011, 10:34 AM

It seems my question was not noticed. Any takers?

xiaophil

I could be wrong, but I think 回 must always have something follow it. As for your other question, I think you need to use 重新开始 or 再 instead of 回. But this is all from my limited experience.

toianw

How about 回到学中文 ?

lujiaojie

February 28, 2011, 06:16 AM

回 always be followed by a location, for example 回家，回公司，回国

'I should get back to studying Chinese'? 可以说：我应该重新开始学习中文。

watyamacallit

Thanks for clearing that up.