Using 到,去 and 來 to state purpose of going

[alayeer]

Hello everyone!

I would like to ask if there is any differences among these sentences:

1. 我去北京学汉语。Wǒ qù běijīng xué hànyǔ.
2. 我到北京去学汉语。Wǒ dào běijīng qù xué hànyǔ.

3. 我学汉语去北京。Wǒ xué hànyǔ qù běijīng.

4. 我学汉语到北京去。Wǒ xué hànyǔ dào běijīng qù. (Is this grammatically correct?)

 

According to some sources, the 1st sentence means "I came to Beijing in order to study Chinese", while the 3rd sentence means "I came here in Beijing to study Chinese". I still haven't fully understand it. Can anyone help to explain it to me?

 

Also, is there any differences between the 1st and 2nd sentences, as well as the 3rd and 4th sentences? Or, do they have the same meaning?

 

Thank you very much!

[Chinese loler]

As a Chinese, I think the 1st and 2nd sentence are not different in their meanings, but the latter is a simplified version compared to the former.

But there's a little problem in the 3rd and 4th sentence, because we usually don't say like that, as the part indicating the purpose of the verb before shall be put after the verb.