# HSK 1 grammar in the Chinese Bible

> 12 of the 32 points measured on this site sit at this level; their markers occur 90,688 times in the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified).

| Point | Markers | Occurrences | Published count |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 的 — the attributive particle | 的 | 46,871 | 39,808 |
| 了 — completion and change of state | 了 | 6,737 | 6,730 |
| 吗, 呢 and 吧 — turning a sentence into a question | 吗 呢 吧 | 3,105 | 3,104 |
| 不 and 没有 — the two negations | 不 没有 | 4,760 | 4,671 |
| 也 and 都 — adverbs go before the verb | 也 都 | 7,442 | 4,580 |
| 在 — saying where something happens | 在 | 11,604 | 5,895 |
| 很 + adjective — and what the Bible uses instead | 很 | 47 | 32 |
| 比 — comparing two things | 比 | 629 | 100 |
| 会 — the modal, and 会 the assembly | 会 | 100 | 1 |
| 要 — want, will, must | 要 | 6,364 | 5,044 |
| 正在 — the progressive, and what stands in for it | 正在 | 57 | 9 |
| 地 — the adverbial particle the data cannot count | 地 | 2,972 | 465 |

Level rule: the highest HSK level of the point's own function words, as data/dict.json grades them; a word the HSK lists do not grade sends the point to 'beyond'.

- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/de-attributive
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/le-aspect
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/question-particles
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/negation
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/ye-dou
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/zai-location
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/hen-adjectival
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/bi-comparison
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/hui-modal
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/yao-modal
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/zhengzai-progressive
- https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/de-adverbial

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