一共 (yīgòng) means Altogether. Below are 7 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
From the graded readers
一共 装了二十六个箱子。
yīgòng zhuāngle èrshíliù gè xiāngzi.
Twenty-six boxes in all.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
面试我的 一共 有两个人。
miàn shì wǒ de(possessive) yīgòng yǒu liǎng gèrén.
Two people interviewed me.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
那天下午，我 一共 摔了十一次。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ, wǒ yīgòng shuāi le / liǎo / liào shíyī cì.
That afternoon I fell eleven times in all.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
From the grammar library
一共 二十二个人。
Yígòng èrshí'èr ge rén.
Twenty-two people in total.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 二 vs 两 — two ways to say two
Questions about 一共
How is 一共 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 一共 (yīgòng, "Altogether"), 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 一共 an HSK word?
Yes — 一共 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 一共?
The dictionary page for 一共 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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