HSK 4 Connectors & compound sentences
于是
And so (consequence) with 于是
Structure (situation),于是 + next action
于是 (yúshì) links a situation to the action taken next, in a narrative: "(this happened), so (I did that)". 下雨了,于是我们没去 = "it started raining, so we didn’t go". Unlike 所以 (logical cause→effect), 于是 marks the SEQUENCE of events in a story.
Examples
- 天黑了,于是我们回家了。
It got dark, so we went home.
- 他病了,于是没来上班。
He fell ill, so he didn’t come to work.
- 下雨了,于是我们没去。
It started raining, so we didn’t go.
Levels are indicative: they follow the standard Chinese Grammar Wiki (AllSet Learning) progression, not an official HSK 3.0 mapping. We never assign levels by eye.