同学

同学 tóngxué in a sentence

Classmate (fellow student)

Full dictionary entry HSK 1 8 sentences

同学 (tóngxué) means Classmate (fellow student). Below are 8 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

他们是我的 同学

Tāmen shì wǒ de tóngxué.

They are my classmates.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 同学

我和他是 同学

Wǒ hé tā shì tóngxué.

He and I are classmates.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 ·

弟弟和 同学 一起踢足球。

Dìdi hé tóngxué yìqǐ tī zúqiú.

My younger brother plays football with his classmates.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 踢足球

教室是 同学 们一起打扫的。

Jiàoshì shì tóngxuémen yìqǐ dǎsǎo de.

The classroom was cleaned by the students together.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 打扫

我在超市遇到了一位老 同学

Wǒ zài chāoshì yùdào le yí wèi lǎo tóngxué.

I ran into an old classmate at the supermarket.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 遇到

我来介绍一下,这是我的 同学

Wǒ lái jièshào yíxià, zhè shì wǒ de tóngxué.

Let me introduce you — this is my classmate.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 介绍

From the graded readers

我们是 同学

wǒmen shì tóngxué.

We're classmates.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Friend Lili

左边的是她大学最好的朋友,右边的两个是同班 同学

zuǒbiān de / dì shì tā dàxué zuìhǎo de / dì péngyou, yòubiān de / dì liǎng gè shì tóng bān tóngxué.

The one on the left was her best friend at university; the two on the right were classmates.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph

Questions about 同学

How is 同学 used in a sentence?

This page shows 8 sentences using 同学 (tóngxué, "Classmate (fellow student)"), 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 同学 an HSK word?

Yes — 同学 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 同学?

The dictionary page for 同学 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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