Listed here, according to the 100-million-word British National Corpus, are the 100 most commonly used words in English. Many of these words are function words: they glue pieces of sentences together into longer syntactic units. Where needed, the part of speech is identified to distinguish different grammatical uses of the same word.

根據(jù)英國(guó)China語(yǔ)料庫(kù)1億字, 這里列出得是英語(yǔ)中100最常用得單詞。

這些單詞中得許多都是功能詞: 它們把句子拼湊成更長(zhǎng)得句法單元。在需要得時(shí)候, 語(yǔ)言得一部分被識(shí)別出來(lái), 以區(qū)分同一單詞得不同語(yǔ)法用法。

thebeofandain (preposition: "in the old days")to (infinitive marker: "to sing")haveitto (preposition: "to the country")for (preposition: "for you")Ithat (relative pronoun: "the book that I read")youheon (preposition: "on the beach")with (preposition: "with pleasure")do (verb: "I do")at (preposition: "at school")by (preposition: "by midnight")notthis (determiner: "this page")butfrom (preposition: "from home")theyhis (determiner: "his job")that (determiner: "that song")sheorwhich (determiner: "which book")as (conjunction: "as we agreed")weansay (verb: "say a prayer")will (auxiliary verb: "I will try")wouldcan (auxiliary verb: "I can go")iftheirgo (verb: "go now")what (determiner: "what time")thereall (determiner: "all people")get (verb: "get busy")her (determiner: "her job")make (verb: "make money")whoas (preposition: "as a child")out (adverb: "go out")up (adverb: "go up")see (verb: "see the sky")know (verb: "know a place")time (time: "a time to laugh")take (verb: "take a break")themsome (determiner: "some money")couldso (adverb: "I said so")himyearinto (preposition: "into the room")itsthenthink (verb: "think hard")mycome (verb: "come early")thanmore (adverb: "more quickly")about (preposition: "about you")nowlast (adjective: "last call")yourmeno (determiner: "no time")other (adjective: "other people")givejust (adverb: "just try")shouldthese (determiner: "these days")peoplealsowell (adverb: "well written")any (determiner: "any day")onlynew (adjective: "new friend")verywhen (conjunction: "when you go")may (auxiliary verb: "you may go")waylook (verb: "look here")like (preposition: "like a boat")use (verb: "use your head")her (pronoun: "give her")such (determiner: "such problems")how (adverb: "see how")becausewhen (adverb: "know when")as (adverb: "as good")good (adjective: "good time")find (verb: "find time")