会 + verbHSK 1
What is the difference between 会 and 能?
会 means someone can do something because they learned it: 会说 = can say, 会写 = can write.
想 + verb — to want to do somethingHSK 1
How do you say you want to do something in Chinese?
想 sits right before another verb to say you want to do that action.
不用 — 'don't need to'HSK 2
不用 + verb means there's no need to do something — different from 不能 ('cannot') or 不要 ('don't want to'): 不用坐车 = 'no need to take a car.'
希望 + clauseHSK 2
希望 introduces a whole sentence expressing what you hope for.
How to use this page
These 5 patterns all do the same job in Chinese, so they are worth seeing side by side — the differences between them are easier to feel when they are next to each other than when they are spread across six HSK levels. They range from HSK 1–5.
Grammar sticks through reading, not through lists. Each entry links to the reading it was taken from. Skim the page, then go read one of them and come back when a sentence stops making sense.