吧 bā in a sentence
OK ([mild imperative action or suggestion])
吧 (bā) means OK ([mild imperative action or suggestion]). Below are 24 of the 93 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
大家随意坐 吧 。
Dàjiā suíyì zuò ba.
Everyone please sit wherever you like.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 随意
大家一起干杯 吧 。
Dàjiā yìqǐ gān bēi ba.
Let us all drink a toast together.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 干杯
我帮你提行李 吧 。
Wǒ bāng nǐ tí xíngli ba.
Let me carry your luggage for you.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 提
说说你的感受 吧 。
Shuōshuo nǐ de gǎnshòu ba.
Tell us how you feel about it.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 感受
换个角度想想 吧 。
Huàn ge jiǎodù xiǎngxiang ba.
Try thinking about it from another angle.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 角度
Reading these is one thing; producing 吧 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
妈妈笑了：“没关系，明天再买 吧 。”
māma xiào le / liǎo / liào:" méiguānxi, míngtiān zài mǎi bā."
Mum laughed: "Never mind, buy it tomorrow."
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
她抱了我一下，说：“别送了，回去 吧 。”
tā bào le / liǎo / liào wǒ yīxià, shuō:" bié sòng le / liǎo / liào, huíqu bā."
She hugged me and said, "Don't see me off any further — go back."
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
我问她：“阿姨，您住几楼？我帮您拿 吧 。”
wǒ wèn tā:" ā / ē yí, nín zhù jǐ / jī lóu? wǒ bāng nín ná bā."
I asked her, "Which floor are you on? Let me carry those."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
From the travel phrasebook
加个微信 吧 。
Jiā ge Wēixìn ba.
Let's add each other on WeChat.
Travel phrasebook · Meetings and introductions
From the grammar library
我们休息休息 吧 。
Wǒmen xiūxi xiūxi ba.
Let's take a little break.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Verb reduplication — 看看, 试试
吧 appears in 93 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 吧
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 吧
How is 吧 used in a sentence?
This page shows 93 sentences using 吧 (bā, "OK ([mild imperative action or suggestion])"), 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 吧 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 吧 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 吧 an HSK word?
Yes — 吧 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 吧?
The dictionary page for 吧 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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