马上

马上 mǎshàng in a sentence

Immediately (right away)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 4 sentences

马上 (mǎshàng) means Immediately (right away). 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

马上 就来。

Wǒ mǎshàng jiù lái.

I'll be there right away.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 马上

会议 马上 就要开始了。

Huìyì mǎshàng jiù yào kāishǐ le.

The meeting is about to start.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 马上

飞机 马上 就要起飞了。

Fēijī mǎshàng jiù yào qǐfēi le.

The plane is about to take off.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 起飞

From the graded readers

我们问她问题的时候,她从来不 马上 回答。

wǒmen wèn tā wèntí de / dì shíhou, tā cónglái bù mǎshàng huídá.

When we ask her a question, she never answers straight away.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher

Questions about 马上

How is 马上 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 马上 (mǎshàng, "Immediately (right away)"), 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 马上 an HSK word?

Yes — 马上 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 马上?

The dictionary page for 马上 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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