个 (gè) means ([measure word]). Below are 24 of the 275 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
From the graded readers
上 个 月我搬家了。
shànggèyuè wǒ bānjiā le / liǎo / liào.
I moved house last month.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
我们班有十二 个 学生。
wǒmen bān yǒu shí'èr gè xuésheng.
There are twelve students in our class.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
我们每天学习二十 个 字。
wǒmen měitiān xuéxí èrshí gè zì.
We learn twenty characters a day.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
上 个 月我坐火车去上海。
shànggèyuè wǒ zuò huǒchē qù shànghǎi.
Last month I took the train to Shanghai.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
一 个 下午就这样过去了。
yīgè xiàwǔ jiù zhèyàng guòqù le / liǎo / liào.
A whole afternoon had gone, just like that.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
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
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
他是 个 好人。
Tā shì ge hǎo rén.
He is a good person.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 的 for possession and description
你看看这 个 。
Nǐ kànkan zhège.
Have a look at this.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Verb reduplication — 看看, 试试
你家有几 个 人？
Nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ ge rén?
How many people are in your family?
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Question words stay in place
我有两 个 孩子。
Wǒ yǒu liǎng ge háizi.
I have two children.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 有 — have and there is
我有一 个 问题。
Wǒ yǒu yí ge wèntí.
I have a question.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Measure words — the top 25
个 appears in 275 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 个
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 个
How is 个 used in a sentence?
This page shows 275 sentences using 个 (gè, "([measure word])"), 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 个 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 个 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 个 an HSK word?
Yes — 个 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 个?
The dictionary page for 个 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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