事 shì in a sentence
Matter (thing - accident - trouble - responsibility - job)
事 (shì) means Matter (thing - accident - trouble - responsibility - job). Below are 24 of the 423 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
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From the graded readers
事 情是这样的。
shìqing shì zhèyàng de / dì.
It happened like this.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我把 事 情跟他说了一遍。
wǒ bǎ shìqing gēn tā shuōle yī biàn.
I explained the situation to him.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
后来我发现， 事 情并不是这样。
hòulái wǒ fāxiàn, shìqing bìngbúshì zhèyàng.
Later I found that wasn't how it worked.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
她只回了四个字：“早就没 事 了。”
tā zhī huí le / liǎo / liào sì gè zì:" zǎo jiù méi shì le / liǎo / liào."
She replied with four words: "It was fine long ago."
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
去年我们差点儿因为一件小 事 不再来往。
qùnián wǒmen chā / chà / chāi diǎn ér yīnwèi yíjiàn xiǎoshì bùzài láiwǎng.
Last year we nearly stopped speaking over something trivial.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
到了公司，同 事 们也没有跟我说纪念日快乐。
dàole gōngsī, tóngshì men yě méiyǒu gēn wǒ shuō jìniànrì kuàilè.
At the office, none of my colleagues said happy anniversary either.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
因为我第一次觉得，我做的 事 情是有意义的。
yīnwèi wǒ dìyīcì juéde, wǒ zuò de / dì shìqing shì yǒu yìyì de / dì.
Because for the first time, what I was doing felt like it meant something.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
我做的 事 情和我喜欢的 事 情，一点关系都没有。
wǒ zuò de / dì shìqing hé wǒ xǐhuan de / dì shìqing, yīdiǎn guānxi dōu méiyǒu.
What I did had nothing whatever to do with what I cared about.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
那天我在群里看到一条消息，说我做 事 不认真。
nà / nèi tiān wǒ zài qún lǐ kàndào yī tiáo xiāoxi, shuō wǒ zuòshì bù rènzhēn.
That day I saw a message in a group chat saying I didn't take my work seriously.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
后来我慢慢发现，休息以后我做 事 反而更快了。
hòulái wǒ mànmàn fāxiàn, xiūxi yǐhòu wǒ zuòshì fǎn'ér gèng / gēng kuài le / liǎo / liào.
Then I gradually noticed that after resting I actually worked faster.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
From the travel phrasebook
差评是怎么回 事 ？
Chàpíng shì zěnme huí shì?
What's the story with the bad reviews?
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
我回去跟同 事 商量。
Wǒ huíqù gēn tóngshì shāngliang.
I'll discuss it with my colleagues.
Travel phrasebook · Meetings and introductions
事 appears in 423 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 事
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Questions about 事
How is 事 used in a sentence?
This page shows 423 sentences using 事 (shì, "Matter (thing - accident - trouble - responsibility - job)"), 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 事 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 事 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 事?
The dictionary page for 事 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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