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title: "place + verb + 着 + thing (there is …) in Chinese Grammar: There is … (somewhere), With Examples"
description: "place + verb + 着 + thing (there is …): there is … (somewhere). Place + verb + 着 + thing describes what is at a place and how it is placed: 墙上挂着一张地图 “there is a map hanging on the wall”. 4 real lines from stories, each word explained."
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# place + verb + 着 + thing (there is …)

There is … (somewhere)

Place + verb + 着 + thing describes what is at a place and how it is placed: 墙上挂着一张地图 “there is a map hanging on the wall”.

## In stories

一个小女孩站在她旁边，六七岁，**手里拿着一个红色的气球**。

[星期五（上） · Friday (part 1)](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/friday-again-easy-chinese-time-loop-story-1#library-word-523-534) HSK 2

**手机上写着三个字**：星期五。

[星期五（下） · Friday (part 2)](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/friday-again-easy-chinese-time-loop-story-2#library-word-902-910) HSK 2

观音院南边二十里，有一座黑风山，**山上住着一个黑熊精**。

[火烧观音院 · Fire at Guanyin Temple](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/fire-at-guanyin-temple-journey-to-the-west-easy-chinese-13#library-word-679-688) HSK 3

孙悟空说：“山上面有如来佛祖的一张纸，**纸上写着六个金色的字**。

[救出悟空 · Freed from the Mountain](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/freed-from-the-mountain-journey-to-the-west-easy-chinese-10#library-word-270-280) HSK 3

[Read 星期五（上）](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/friday-again-easy-chinese-time-loop-story-1#library-word-523-534)

## More patterns

- [verb1 + 着 + verb2 (doing 2 while/by doing 1) do something while …; do it by …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/v-zhe-v)
- [verb + 着 + verb + 着 while doing something (and then …)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/vzhe-vzhe)
- [把 + object + verb do something to … (and it ends up changed)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/ba)
- [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 place + verb + 着 + thing (there is …) mean in Chinese?

There is … (somewhere). Place + verb + 着 + thing describes what is at a place and how it is placed: 墙上挂着一张地图 “there is a map hanging on the wall”.

## How common is place + verb + 着 + thing (there is …)?

It comes up in 65 readings of the 392 stories and articles in our free Library.

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