几乎

几乎 jīhū in a sentence

Almost (nearly)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 7 sentences

几乎 (jīhū) means Almost (nearly). 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

他几乎每天都来。

Tā jīhū měi tiān dōu lái.

He comes almost every day.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 几乎

这些题我几乎都会做。

Zhèxiē tí wǒ jīhū dōu huì zuò.

I can do almost all of these questions.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 几乎

From the graded readers

街上几乎没有人。

jiēshàng jīhū méiyǒu rén.

There was almost nobody about.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost

下车的时候，我几乎认不出那个地方。

xià chē de / dì shíhou, wǒ jīhū rèn bùchū nèigè dìfang.

Getting off the coach, I could hardly recognise the place.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home

现在几乎没有人写信了，所以我很吃惊。

xiànzài jīhū méiyǒu rén xiěxìn le / liǎo / liào, suǒyǐ wǒ hěn chījīng.

Almost nobody writes letters now, so I was surprised.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother

那半年，我几乎每天都加班到晚上十点以后。

nà / nèi bàn nián, wǒ jīhū měitiān dōu jiābān dào wǎnshang shí diǎn yǐhòu.

For those six months I worked past ten almost every night.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure

最难的是第一年，我几乎每个月都在担心钱的问题。

zuì nán de / dì shì dìyī nián, wǒ jīhū měi gè yuè dōu zài dānxīn qián de / dì wèntí.

The first year was the hardest — I worried about money almost every month.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs

Questions about 几乎

How is 几乎 used in a sentence?

This page shows 7 sentences using 几乎 (jīhū, "Almost (nearly)"), 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 几乎 an HSK word?

Yes — 几乎 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 几乎?

The dictionary page for 几乎 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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