固然

固然 gùrán in a sentence

No doubt (of course)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 3 sentences

固然 (gùrán) means No doubt (of course). Below are 3 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 固然 有错,但也情有可原。

Tā gùrán yǒu cuò, dàn yě qíng yǒu kě yuán.

He was admittedly at fault, but it is understandable.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 固然

努力 固然 重要,方法也不能忽视。

Nǔlì gùrán zhòngyào, fāngfǎ yě bù néng hūshì.

Effort is certainly important, but method cannot be ignored either.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 固然

天赋 固然 重要,坚持更重要。

Tiānfù gùrán zhòngyào, jiānchí gèng zhòngyào.

Talent matters, of course, but persistence matters more.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 天赋

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Questions about 固然

How is 固然 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 固然 (gùrán, "No doubt (of course)"), 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 固然 an HSK word?

Yes — 固然 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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