祖国

祖国 zǔguó in a sentence

Homeland (motherland)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

祖国 (zǔguó) means Homeland (motherland). 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

他在海外二十年,一直思念 祖国 。

Tā zài hǎiwài èrshí nián, yìzhí sīniàn zǔguó.

Twenty years abroad, he has always missed his homeland.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 祖国

他把一生献给了 祖国 的教育事业。

Tā bǎ yìshēng xiàn gěi le zǔguó de jiàoyù shìyè.

He devoted his life to his country's education.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 祖国

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How is 祖国 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 祖国 (zǔguó, "Homeland (motherland)"), 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 祖国 an HSK word?

Yes — 祖国 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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