努力 (nǔlì) means Strive (effort - try hard - exert). 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
我要更 努力 地学习汉语。
Wǒ yào gèng nǔlì de xuéxí Hànyǔ.
I am going to study Chinese even harder.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 努力
他保证会 努力 学习。
Tā bǎozhèng huì nǔlì xuéxí.
He guarantees he will study hard.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 保证
他的 努力 是我的五倍。
Tā de nǔlì shì wǒ de wǔ bèi.
His effort is five times mine.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 倍
他很聪明，而且很 努力 。
Tā hěn cōngming, érqiě hěn nǔlì.
He is clever, and hard-working as well.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 而且
努力 学习才会有好成绩。
Nǔlì xuéxí cái huì yǒu hǎo chéngjì.
Only by studying hard will you get good results.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 成绩
只有 努力 才能提高水平。
Zhǐyǒu nǔlì cái néng tígāo shuǐpíng.
Only through hard work can you improve.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 只有
From the graded readers
我也终于明白，能长期做下去的，才叫 努力 。
wǒ yě zhōngyú míngbai, néng chángqī zuò xiàqu de / dì, cái jiào nǔlì.
And I finally understood that only what you can keep doing counts as effort.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
Questions about 努力
How is 努力 used in a sentence?
This page shows 9 sentences using 努力 (nǔlì, "Strive (effort - try hard - exert)"), 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 努力 an HSK word?
Yes — 努力 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 努力?
The dictionary page for 努力 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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