咱

咱 zán in a sentence

We (speaker and audience)

Full dictionary entry 3 sentences

咱 (zán) means We (speaker and audience). 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

咱 们下午再商量。

Zánmen xiàwǔ zài shāngliang.

Let us talk it over again this afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 咱们

咱 们一起去吃饭吧。

Zánmen yìqǐ qù chī fàn ba.

Let us go and eat together.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 咱们

咱 们说点正经事吧。

Zánmen shuō diǎn zhèngjing shì ba.

Let's talk about something serious.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正经

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Words that contain 咱

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Questions about 咱

How is 咱 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 咱 (zán, "We (speaker and audience)"), 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 咱 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 咱 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 咱?

The dictionary page for 咱 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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