一共 (yīgòng) means Altogether. Below are 14 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
我们班 一共 有二十个学生。
Wǒmen bān yígòng yǒu èrshí gè xuésheng.
There are twenty students in our class in total.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 一共
夏令营 一共 七天。
Xiàlìngyíng yígòng qī tiān.
The summer camp lasts seven days in all.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 夏令营
一共 是一百二十元。
Yígòng shì yìbǎi èrshí yuán.
That comes to a hundred and twenty yuan.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 元
这本书 一共 有十节。
Zhè běn shū yígòng yǒu shí jié.
This book has ten sections in all.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 节
这本书 一共 三百页。
Zhè běn shū yígòng sānbǎi yè.
This book has three hundred pages in total.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 页
这本词典 一共 有三册。
Zhè běn cídiǎn yígòng yǒu sān cè.
This dictionary comes in three volumes.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 册
考试 一共 有四个科目。
Kǎoshì yígòng yǒu sì ge kēmù.
The exam has four subjects in all.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 科目
小区里 一共 有十二栋房子。
Xiǎoqū lǐ yígòng yǒu shí'èr dòng fángzi.
There are twelve buildings in the compound altogether.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 栋
连同这次，他 一共 来了三回。
Liántóng zhè cì, tā yígòng lái le sān huí.
Counting this time, he has come three times in all.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 连同
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From the graded readers
一共 装了二十六个箱子。
yīgòng zhuāngle èrshíliù gè xiāngzi.
Twenty-six boxes in all.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
面试我的 一共 有两个人。
miàn shì wǒ de(possessive) yīgòng yǒu liǎng gèrén.
Two people interviewed me.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
那天下午，我 一共 摔了十一次。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ, wǒ yīgòng shuāi le / liǎo / liào shíyī cì.
That afternoon I fell eleven times in all.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
From the grammar library
一共 二十二个人。
Yígòng èrshí'èr ge rén.
Twenty-two people in total.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 二 vs 两 — two ways to say two
Questions about 一共
How is 一共 used in a sentence?
This page shows 14 sentences using 一共 (yīgòng, "Altogether"), 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 一共 an HSK word?
Yes — 一共 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 一共?
The dictionary page for 一共 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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