大约

大约 dàyuē in a sentence

Approximately

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

大约 (dàyuē) means Approximately. 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

会议 大约 开一个小时。

Huìyì dàyuē kāi yí ge xiǎoshí.

The meeting lasts about an hour.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 大约

教室里 大约 有五十个人。

Jiàoshì lǐ dàyuē yǒu wǔshí ge rén.

There are about fifty people in the classroom.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 大约

Questions about 大约

How is 大约 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 大约 (dàyuē, "Approximately"), 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 大约 an HSK word?

Yes — 大约 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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