刚才

刚才 gāngcái in a sentence

A moment ago (just)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 2 sentences

刚才 (gāngcái) means A moment ago (just). Below are 2 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

刚才 还在这儿。

Tā gāngcái hái zài zhèr.

He was still here a moment ago.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 刚才

刚才 是谁打的电话?

Gāngcái shì shéi dǎ de diànhuà?

Who was that on the phone just now?

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 刚才

Questions about 刚才

How is 刚才 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 刚才 (gāngcái, "A moment ago (just)"), 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 刚才 an HSK word?

Yes — 刚才 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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