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title: "把…当(作/成)… in Chinese Grammar: Treat … as …, With Examples"
description: "把…当(作/成)…: treat … as …. 把 X 当(作) Y: regard or use X as Y. 3 real lines from stories, each word explained."
canonical: "https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/ba-dangzuo"
author: "Mandarin The Wild"
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[Chinese grammar](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar)

# 把…当(作/成)…

Treat … as …

把 X 当(作) Y: regard or use X as Y.

## In stories

梁山伯一直**把祝英台当成好兄弟**，从来没有怀疑过她是女孩子。

[梁山伯与祝英台 · The Butterfly Lovers](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/butterfly-lovers-legend#library-word-240-249) HSK 4

他**把电梯的墙当成钢琴**，用手指“弹”那一段给我看，嘴里还唱着：“这里要慢，这里要轻…

[电梯里的四十分钟 · Stuck in the lift with the neighbour](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/stuck-in-the-lift-with-the-neighbour#library-word-445-454) HSK 4

但是中国的木匠一直**把鲁班当作自己的祖师**。

[一片草叶 · Lu Ban and the saw: a Chinese legend](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/lu-ban-and-the-saw-chinese-legend#library-word-562-572) HSK 5

[Read 梁山伯与祝英台](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/butterfly-lovers-legend#library-word-240-249)

## More patterns

- [把 + object + verb do something to … (and it ends up changed)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/ba)
- [将 + object + verb (formal 把) do something to … (formal 把)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/jiang-obj)
- [verb + 成 + result do something so it becomes …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/v-cheng)
- [verb (+ 了) + duration (for how long) for … (how long … lasts)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/duration)
- [verb + 得 + complement says how something is done (how well, how much, with what result)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/v-de-c)
- […的时候 when …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/de-shihou)

## What does 把…当(作/成)… mean in Chinese?

Treat … as …. 把 X 当(作) Y: regard or use X as Y.

## How common is 把…当(作/成)…?

It comes up in 3 readings of the 392 stories and articles in our free Library.

## Does it correct my mistakes?

No. It shows which patterns a text uses and what each one does; it doesn’t mark errors. Paste a sentence you wrote to see whether it uses the pattern you meant.

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Patterns found by our own parser; lines from our free Library.