担任 (dānrèn) means To serve as (assume office of). Below are 6 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
她 担任 了三年经理。
Tā dānrèn le sān nián jīnglǐ.
She held the post of manager for three years.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 担任
他 担任 这个班的老师。
Tā dānrèn zhège bān de lǎoshī.
He serves as this class's teacher.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 担任
他 担任 过很多重要职务。
Tā dānrèn guo hěn duō zhòngyào zhíwù.
He has held many important posts.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 职务
退休后他仍 担任 技术顾问。
Tuìxiū hòu tā réng dānrèn jìshù gùwèn.
After retiring he still serves as a technical consultant.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 顾问
他 担任 了三年的支部书记。
Tā dānrèn le sān nián de zhībù shūji.
He served three years as branch secretary.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 书记
他曾 担任 这支部队的司令。
Tā céng dānrèn zhè zhī bùduì de sīlìng.
He once served as commander of this unit.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 司令
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Questions about 担任
How is 担任 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 担任 (dānrèn, "To serve as (assume office of)"), 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 担任 an HSK word?
Yes — 担任 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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