等 (děng) means Wait (grade - equal - etc.). Below are 24 of the 66 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
我们 等 他一起走。
Wǒmen děng tā yìqǐ zǒu.
Let's wait for him and go together.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 等
他在门外 等 我。
Tā zài mén wài děng wǒ.
He is waiting for me outside the door.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 门
他一直在 等 你。
Tā yìzhí zài děng nǐ.
He has been waiting for you all along.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 一直
我在火车站 等 你。
Wǒ zài huǒchēzhàn děng nǐ.
I'll wait for you at the train station.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 火车站
客人在客厅 等 你。
Kèrén zài kètīng děng nǐ.
The guest is waiting for you in the living room.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 客厅
你乖乖在家 等 我。
Nǐ guāiguāi zài jiā děng wǒ.
Wait for me at home like a good child.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 乖
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From the graded readers
等 我醒过来的时候，已经五点了。
děng wǒ xǐng guòlái de / dì shíhou, yǐjīng wǔ diǎn le / liǎo / liào.
By the time I woke up it was already five.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
车站里人非常多，我 等 了半个小时才买到票。
chēzhàn lǐ rén fēicháng duō, wǒ děng le / liǎo / liào bànge xiǎoshí cái mǎi dào piào.
The station was packed; I queued half an hour before I got a ticket.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
医院里 等 的人非常多，我们 等 了一个多小时。
yīyuàn lǐ děng de / dì rén fēicháng duō, wǒmen děng le / liǎo / liào yīgè duō xiǎoshí.
There were a lot of people waiting; we waited over an hour.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor
等 着付钱的人非常多，我排了二十分钟的队。
děngzhe fù qián de / dì rén fēicháng duō, wǒ pái le / liǎo / liào èrshí fēnzhōng de / dì duì.
There were a lot of people waiting; I queued for twenty minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
我在路口 等 公共汽车， 等 了十分钟，车还没有来。
wǒ zài lù kǒu děng gōnggòngqìchē, děng le / liǎo / liào shífēn zhōng, chē hái / huán méiyǒu lái.
I waited at the corner for the bus; after ten minutes it still hadn't come.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
From the travel phrasebook
我在门口 等 。
Wǒ zài ménkǒu děng.
I'm waiting at the entrance.
Travel phrasebook · Taxis and ride-hailing
稍 等 ，我看一下。
Shāo děng, wǒ kàn yíxià.
One moment, let me look.
Travel phrasebook · WeChat and staying in touch
这个要 等 二十分钟。
Zhège yào děng èrshí fēnzhōng.
That one takes twenty minutes.
Travel phrasebook · Reading a Chinese menu
From the grammar library
等 appears in 66 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 等
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 等
How is 等 used in a sentence?
This page shows 66 sentences using 等 (děng, "Wait (grade - equal - etc.)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 等 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 等 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 等 an HSK word?
Yes — 等 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 等?
The dictionary page for 等 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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