ABSTRACT
Literally, jìn qu means ‘enter go’ and jìn lai means ‘enter come’. If you are outside a house and wanting to go in, use jìn qu (to go in/to go into). If you are inside a house and asking someone else to come in, use jìn lai (to come in/to come inside). Here again, qù and lái are directional words, as we saw in Note 16 of Lesson 8, and they usually become toneless. For example:
Xiàyo le. Zánmen jìn qu tán, hko ma? It’s raining. Shall we go inside to talk?
