跟 — With: links the subject to a second person, and the two share one action.

grammar → 跟

TSUMUGU · TBCL 2 (est.) · 語法

跟 grammar point · tier 1 · comitative 跟 (with: two co-actors do one thing)

· gēn

With: links the subject to a second person, and the two share one action.

Hook inherited from 跟.

With

框 · Frame

[subj] 跟 [person] (一起) [verb]

觸 · Trigger

You and someone else do one thing together, and you want to name them in.

序 · The move

1name the subjectwho is the one speaking or acting?

2跟 + the second personis this a co-actor, not the verb's target?

3add 一起 if the action is genuinely sharedare both doing the same thing?

4the shared verb, after the persondoes the verb sit after 跟[person], never before?

例 · Examples

1我I跟with姐姐older sister一起together到go to圖書館library借書borrow books。

My older sister and I went to the library together to borrow books.

界 · Boundary

跟 (follow)

Comitative 跟 links two equals doing one thing together; verb 跟 has one trail behind the other. 我跟他走 = walk together; 我跟著他走 = walk behind him.

向

跟 joins a co-actor who shares the verb; 向 aims the verb one-way at a target who receives it. 跟他學 = study alongside him; 向他學 = take him as the model to learn from.

verb before person: 我去跟姐姐圖書館 → 我跟姐姐去圖書館

treating 跟 as a verb: 我跟姐姐。(I'm with my sister — incomplete) → 我跟姐姐去圖書館。

stranding 跟 like English 'with you': 我去跟你 → 我跟你去

English 'with' trails the verb (go with me); 跟 sits before the person and before the verb (跟我去), so learners place it too late.