哪儿 nǎr in a sentence
Where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?†
哪儿 (nǎr) means Where?, wherever; anywhere; somewhere, (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? †. Below are 16 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
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From the graded readers
他问我：“你是从 哪儿 来的？”
tā wèn wǒ:" nǐ shì cóng nǎ / něi ér lái de / dì?"
He asked me, "Where are you from?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
From the travel phrasebook
候车室在 哪儿 ？
Hòuchēshì zài nǎr?
Where is the waiting hall?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
请问检票口在 哪儿 ？
Qǐngwèn jiǎnpiàokǒu zài nǎr?
Where is the ticket gate, please?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
最近的医院在 哪儿 ？
Zuì jìn de yīyuàn zài nǎr?
Where is the nearest hospital?
Travel phrasebook · Pharmacy and emergencies
From the grammar library
你是在 哪儿 学的中文？
Nǐ shì zài nǎr xué de Zhōngwén?
Where did you learn Chinese?
Grammar library · HSK 4 · 是…的 — emphasising the details
Questions about 哪儿
How is 哪儿 used in a sentence?
This page shows 16 sentences using 哪儿 (nǎr, "Where?, wherever; anywhere; somewhere, (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? †"), 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 哪儿 an HSK word?
Yes — 哪儿 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 哪儿?
The dictionary page for 哪儿 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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