宁可 (nìngkě) means Would rather. 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
我 宁可 走路也不坐车。
Wǒ nìngkě zǒu lù yě bú zuò chē.
I would rather walk than take a bus.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 宁可
他 宁可 少赚点，也要做好。
Tā nìngkě shǎo zhuàn diǎn, yě yào zuò hǎo.
He would rather earn less and do it well.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 宁可
他 宁可 吃苦，也要保住尊严。
Tā nìngkě chīkǔ, yě yào bǎozhù zūnyán.
He would rather suffer than lose his dignity.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 尊严
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Questions about 宁可
How is 宁可 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 宁可 (nìngkě, "Would rather"), 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 宁可 an HSK word?
Yes — 宁可 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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