坐 (zuò) means Sit (travel by - take a). Below are 24 of the 37 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
From the graded readers
坐 车要二十分钟。
zuò chē yāo èrshí fēnzhōng.
It takes twenty minutes by bus.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
我们 坐 下，看菜单。
wǒmen zuòxia, kàn / kān càidān.
We sat down and looked at the menu.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · At the Restaurant
我旁边 坐 着一位老人。
wǒ pángbiān zuòzhe yī wèi lǎorén.
An older man was sitting next to me.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
我 坐 车去，车上人很多。
wǒ zuò chē qù, chē shàng rén hěnduō.
I took the bus, and it was crowded.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
上个月我 坐 火车去上海。
shànggèyuè wǒ zuò huǒchē qù shànghǎi.
Last month I took the train to Shanghai.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
天气好的时候，我不 坐 车。
tiānqì hǎode shíhou, wǒ bù zuò chē.
When the weather's nice, I don't take the bus.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
第一天，我连 坐 上去都做不到。
dìyī tiān, wǒ lián zuò shàngqù dōu zuò bùdào.
On the first day I couldn't even get on it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
我只好 坐 出租车，花了五十块钱。
wǒ zhǐhǎo zuò chūzūchē, huāle wǔshí kuài qián.
I had to take a taxi, which cost fifty yuan.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
我是 坐 飞机来的。
Wǒ shì zuò fēijī lái de.
I came by plane.
Grammar library · HSK 4 · 是…的 — emphasising the details
坐 飞机比 坐 火车快。
Zuò fēijī bǐ zuò huǒchē kuài.
Flying is faster than taking the train.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 比 comparisons
这个房间能 坐 五十个人。
Zhège fángjiān néng zuò wǔshí ge rén.
This room can seat fifty people.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 会 / 能 / 可以 — three ways to say "can"
坐 appears in 37 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.
Questions about 坐
How is 坐 used in a sentence?
This page shows 37 sentences using 坐 (zuò, "Sit (travel by - take a)"), 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 坐 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 坐 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 坐 an HSK word?
Yes — 坐 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 坐?
The dictionary page for 坐 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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