后来

后来 hòulái in a sentence

Afterwards (after)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 8 sentences

后来 (hòulái) means Afterwards (after). Below are 8 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

后来 他就没再来过。

Hòulái tā jiù méi zài lái guo.

After that he never came again.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 后来

我们先去了公园, 后来 又去了超市。

Wǒmen xiān qù le gōngyuán, hòulái yòu qù le chāoshì.

We went to the park first, and afterwards to the supermarket.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 后来

From the graded readers

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

后来 我看见一个老人在路口卖红薯。

hòulái wǒ kànjiàn yīgè lǎorén zài lù kǒu mài hóngshǔ.

Then I saw an old man selling sweet potatoes on the corner.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost

后来 我发现,自己想出来的东西记得最久。

hòulái wǒ fāxiàn, zìjǐ xiǎngchū lái de / dì dōngxī jìde zuì jiǔ.

Later I realised that what you work out yourself is what you remember longest.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher

后来 我慢慢发现,休息以后我做事反而更快了。

hòulái wǒ mànmàn fāxiàn, xiūxi yǐhòu wǒ zuòshì fǎn'ér gèng / gēng kuài le / liǎo / liào.

Then I gradually noticed that after resting I actually worked faster.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure

后来 我给他买了一块地毯,他把它放在了房间里。

hòulái wǒ gěi tā mǎile yīkuài dìtǎn, tā bǎ tā fàng zài le / liǎo / liào fángjiān lǐ.

Afterwards I bought him a rug, and he put it down in the room.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs

后来 有一天,另一个朋友告诉我:那天小林的手机被弟弟拿去玩了。

hòulái yǒu yī tiān, lìngyī gè péngyou gàosu wǒ: nà / nèi tiān xiǎo lín de / dì shǒujī bèi dìdi ná qù wán / wàn le / liǎo / liào.

Then one day another friend told me that Xiaolin's phone had been taken by her younger brother that day.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding

Questions about 后来

How is 后来 used in a sentence?

This page shows 8 sentences using 后来 (hòulái, "Afterwards (after)"), 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 后来 an HSK word?

Yes — 后来 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 后来?

The dictionary page for 后来 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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