何况

何况 hékuàng in a sentence

Much less (let alone)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

何况 (hékuàng) means Much less (let alone). Below are 3 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

我都做不了, 何况 是他。

Wǒ dōu zuò bu liǎo, hékuàng shì tā.

Even I cannot do it, let alone him.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 何况

路这么远, 何况 又下雨。

Lù zhème yuǎn, hékuàng yòu xià yǔ.

The way is so far, and it is raining besides.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 何况

他尚且做不到, 何况 我们呢。

Tā shàngqiě zuò bu dào, hékuàng wǒmen ne.

Even he cannot do it, let alone us.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 尚且

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How is 何况 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 何况 (hékuàng, "Much less (let alone)"), 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 何况 an HSK word?

Yes — 何况 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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