一会儿

一会儿 yìhuir in a sentence

A while

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 6 sentences

一会儿 (yìhuir) means A while. Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

请等 一会儿

Qǐng děng yíhuìr.

Please wait a moment.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 一会儿

一会儿 就回来。

Wǒ yíhuìr jiù huílai.

I'll be back in a little while.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 一会儿

请在这儿站 一会儿

Qǐng zài zhèr zhàn yíhuìr.

Please stand here for a moment.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

From the graded readers

晚上我看书,也看 一会儿 电视。

wǎnshang wǒ kànshū, yě kàn / kān yìhuir diànshì.

In the evening I read, and watch a little TV.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day

中午吃完饭,我想休息 一会儿

zhōngwǔ chīwán fàn, wǒ xiǎng xiūxi yìhuir.

After lunch I thought I'd rest for a bit.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend

他非常不好意思,说:“对不起,我的腿不太好,每天晚上要走 一会儿 。”

tā fēicháng bùhǎoyìsi, shuō:" duìbuqǐ, wǒ de(possessive) tuǐ bù tài hǎo / hào, měitiān wǎnshang yāo zǒu yìhuir."

He was mortified. "I'm so sorry — my legs aren't good and I have to walk about for a while each night."

Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs

Questions about 一会儿

How is 一会儿 used in a sentence?

This page shows 6 sentences using 一会儿 (yìhuir, "A while"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 一会儿 an HSK word?

Yes — 一会儿 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

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