等待 (děngdài) means Wait for. 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
他在门口 等待 朋友。
Tā zài ménkǒu děngdài péngyou.
He is waiting for his friend at the door.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 等待
等待 的时间总是很长。
Děngdài de shíjiān zǒngshì hěn cháng.
Time spent waiting always feels long.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 等待
等待 的滋味不好受。
Děngdài de zīwèi bù hǎo shòu.
The taste of waiting is hard to bear.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 滋味
等待 有时是一种折磨。
Děngdài yǒushí shì yì zhǒng zhémo.
Waiting is sometimes a torment.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 折磨
自力更生比 等待 救助更可靠。
Zì lì gēng shēng bǐ děngdài jiùzhù gèng kěkào.
Self-reliance is more dependable than waiting for help.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 自力更生
与其被动 等待 ，不如主动争取。
Yǔqí bèidòng děngdài, bùrú zhǔdòng zhēngqǔ.
Rather than waiting passively, it is better to go after it yourself.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 被动
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Questions about 等待
How is 等待 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 等待 (děngdài, "Wait for"), 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 等待 an HSK word?
Yes — 等待 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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