因此

因此 yīncǐ in a sentence

Therefore (so - due to - for this reason - hence)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 3 sentences

因此 (yīncǐ) means Therefore (so - due to - for this reason - hence). 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

他生病了，因此没来上课。

Tā shēng bìng le, yīncǐ méi lái shàng kè.

He was ill, so he did not come to class.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 因此

天气不好，因此比赛推迟了。

Tiānqì bù hǎo, yīncǐ bǐsài tuīchí le.

The weather was bad, so the match was postponed.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 因此

From the graded readers

可是奇怪的是，没有一个人因此不理我。

kěshì qíguài de / dì shì, méiyǒu yīgè rén yīncǐ bùlǐ wǒ.

But oddly enough, not a single person stopped speaking to me.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No

Questions about 因此

How is 因此 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 因此 (yīncǐ, "Therefore (so - due to - for this reason - hence)"), 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 因此 an HSK word?

Yes — 因此 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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