事情 (shìqing) means Matter (affair). Below are 9 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
我有很多 事情 要做。
Wǒ yǒu hěn duō shìqing yào zuò.
I have a lot of things to do.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 事情
这件 事情 你知道吗？
Zhè jiàn shìqing nǐ zhīdào ma?
Do you know about this matter?
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 事情
别哭了， 事情 会好起来的。
Bié kū le, shìqing huì hǎo qǐlai de.
Don't cry — things will get better.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 哭
听到这个 事情 ，我很难过。
Tīngdào zhège shìqing, wǒ hěn nánguò.
I felt very sad when I heard about it.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 难过
From the graded readers
事情 是这样的。
shìqing shì zhèyàng de / dì.
It happened like this.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我把 事情 跟他说了一遍。
wǒ bǎ shìqing gēn tā shuōle yī biàn.
I explained the situation to him.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
后来我发现， 事情 并不是这样。
hòulái wǒ fāxiàn, shìqing bìngbúshì zhèyàng.
Later I found that wasn't how it worked.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
因为我第一次觉得，我做的 事情 是有意义的。
yīnwèi wǒ dìyīcì juéde, wǒ zuò de / dì shìqing shì yǒu yìyì de / dì.
Because for the first time, what I was doing felt like it meant something.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
我做的 事情 和我喜欢的 事情 ，一点关系都没有。
wǒ zuò de / dì shìqing hé wǒ xǐhuan de / dì shìqing, yīdiǎn guānxi dōu méiyǒu.
What I did had nothing whatever to do with what I cared about.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
Questions about 事情
How is 事情 used in a sentence?
This page shows 9 sentences using 事情 (shìqing, "Matter (affair)"), 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 事情 an HSK word?
Yes — 事情 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 事情?
The dictionary page for 事情 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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