爷爷 (yéye) means Grandfather. 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
爷爷 给我讲了很多故事。
Yéye gěi wǒ jiǎng le hěn duō gùshi.
Grandpa told me many stories.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 爷爷
爷爷 每天早上去公园锻炼。
Yéye měi tiān zǎoshang qù gōngyuán duànliàn.
Grandpa goes to the park to exercise every morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 爷爷
爷爷 喜欢下象棋。
Yéye xǐhuan xià xiàngqí.
Grandpa likes playing Chinese chess.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 象棋
我 爷爷 已经很老了。
Wǒ yéye yǐjing hěn lǎo le.
My grandfather is quite old now.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 老
爷爷 特别喜欢京剧。
Yéye tèbié xǐhuan jīngjù.
Grandfather is especially fond of Beijing opera.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 京剧
爷爷 很喜欢他的孙子。
Yéye hěn xǐhuan tā de sūnzi.
Grandfather is very fond of his grandson.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 孙子
爷爷 喜欢在河边钓鱼。
Yéye xǐhuan zài hé biān diào yú.
Grandpa likes fishing by the river.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 钓
周末我去看望了 爷爷 。
Zhōumò wǒ qù kànwàng le yéye.
I visited my grandfather at the weekend.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 看望
他的 爷爷 去年去世了。
Tā de yéye qùnián qùshì le.
His grandfather passed away last year.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 去世
爷爷 很疼爱这个孙子。
Yéye hěn téng ài zhège sūnzi.
Grandpa dotes on this grandson.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 疼爱
爷爷 每天早上练气功。
Yéye měi tiān zǎoshang liàn qìgōng.
Grandpa practises qigong every morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 气功
爷爷 拄着拐杖慢慢地走。
Yéye zhǔzhe guǎizhàng mànmàn de zǒu.
Grandpa walks slowly leaning on his stick.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 拐杖
爷爷 每天早上听收音机。
Yéye měi tiān zǎoshang tīng shōuyīnjī.
Grandpa listens to the radio every morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 收音机
这副对联是 爷爷 亲手写的。
Zhè fù duìlián shì yéye qīnshǒu xiě de.
Grandpa wrote this couplet with his own hand.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 对联
爷爷 年轻的时候上过战场,打仗打了整整三年。
Yéye niánqīng de shíhou shàng guo zhànchǎng, dǎzhàng dǎ le zhěngzhěng sān nián.
Grandpa went to the front when he was young and fought for three full years.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 打仗
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Questions about 爷爷
How is 爷爷 used in a sentence?
This page shows 16 sentences using 爷爷 (yéye, "Grandfather"), 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 爷爷 an HSK word?
Yes — 爷爷 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
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