事先

事先 shìxiān in a sentence

In advance (prior - beforehand)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

事先 (shìxiān) means In advance (prior - beforehand). Below are 3 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

请 事先 告诉我。

Qǐng shìxiān gàosu wǒ.

Please tell me in advance.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 事先

他 事先 做了准备。

Tā shìxiān zuò le zhǔnbèi.

He made preparations beforehand.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 事先

这件 事先 搁一搁,过几天再说。

Zhè jiàn shì xiān gē yi gē, guò jǐ tiān zài shuō.

Let's set this aside for now and talk about it in a few days.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 搁

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How is 事先 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 事先 (shìxiān, "In advance (prior - beforehand)"), 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 事先 an HSK word?

Yes — 事先 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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The dictionary page for 事先 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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