n.
school
学校
Common Usage & Traps
- 去学校 — go to the school (building)
- 在学校 — at school
- 我们学校 — our school / the school I go to
- 学校门口 — school entrance area (where people stand and wait)
- 上学 — attend school (as a student)
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我的学校我们学校For the school you attend, Chinese uses 我们学校. 我的学校 sounds like you personally own the building.
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我明天有学校我明天要去学校English says 'I have school tomorrow'. Chinese never 有 a school day — you 去学校.
Do you say 我的学校 or 我们学校 for the school you go to?
Use 我们学校. 我的学校 sounds like you personally own the building.
Chinese treats the school you belong to as a group, not a possession. Students, parents, and teachers all say 我们学校, the same way they say 我们公司 or 我们班. 我的学校 is not broken grammar, but it sounds like you own the place. Real owners do say 我的学校. Everybody else sticks with 我们.
| Dimension | Natural | Avoid |
|---|---|---|
| The school you attend | 我们学校很大 | 我的学校很大 |
| Your family home | 我们家很大 | 我的家很大 |
| Your class | 我们班有三十个人 | 我的班有三十个人 |
How do you say 'I go to school' — 上学 or 去学校?
上学 marks you as a student; 去学校 just means heading to the building.
上学 tells people you are a student and school is your routine. 去学校 is neutral travel — a teacher, a parent, or a driver all 去学校. So a teacher saying 我每天上学 sounds wrong, because teachers don't attend school. Pick 上学 when school is your role, 去学校 when you only mean the trip.
| Dimension | Natural | Avoid |
|---|---|---|
| A student, every day | 我每天上学 | 老师每天上学 |
| A teacher, every day | 我每天去学校 | 我每天上学 |
What's the difference between 学校门口 and 学校大门?
门口 is the spot where people stand; 大门 is the gate itself.
门口 means the doorway area — the place where people stand and wait. 大门 means the big gate — a physical object you can repair or paint. So 学校门口 is where you meet a friend after class, while 学校的大门 is what the workers fixed. In daily speech, 学校门口 and 校门口 both work fine.
| Dimension | Natural | Avoid |
|---|---|---|
| Where you wait for someone | 在学校门口等你 | 在学校大门等你 |
| The gate as an object | 学校的大门修好了 | 学校的门口修好了 |
Appears in Stories 3 stories
Real context sentences across different daily scenarios and graded readings.
This playful rhyme helps you learn family words in Chinese. Practice saying who's who with simple questions and answers!
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人人爱学习，天天去 学校 ，上午读读书，下午写写字。
This playful poem will make you smile as you explore how Chinese words like 'computer' and 'phone' can be funnier than they seem. Get ready to enjoy simple HSK 1 vocabulary and a twist of logic!
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学生上 学校 ，医生不上学。
A young man helps an old man look for his cat. But the real surprise is why the old man wanted to find the cat. Read on to learn about kindness and friendship.
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一天，白天明在 学校 大门口前边看见有人写了找猫的话：“我想找一只大白猫。
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白天明天天在 学校 里找大白猫。
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