gǎn in a sentence

Catch up with (drive - rush)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 4 sentences

赶 (gǎn) means Catch up with (drive - rush). Below are 4 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

我要 九点的火车。

Wǒ yào gǎn jiǔ diǎn de huǒchē.

I have to catch the nine o'clock train.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 ·

到车站时,车已经开了。

Tā gǎn dào chēzhàn shí, chē yǐjīng kāi le.

By the time he rushed to the station, the train had left.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 ·

From the travel phrasebook

时间。

Wǒ gǎn shíjiān.

I'm in a hurry.

Travel phrasebook · Taxis and ride-hailing

不上这班车了。

Wǒ gǎnbushàng zhè bān chē le.

I'm not going to make this train.

Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro

Questions about 赶

How is 赶 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 赶 (gǎn, "Catch up with (drive - rush)"), 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 赶 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 赶 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 赶 an HSK word?

Yes — 赶 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 赶?

The dictionary page for 赶 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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