多 (duō) means Many (more - how). Below are 24 of the 372 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
学校里人很 多 。
Xuéxiào li rén hěn duō.
There are many people in the school.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 多
船上有很 多 人。
Chuán shàng yǒu hěn duō rén.
There are many people on the boat.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 船
路上行人很 多 。
Lù shàng xíngrén hěn duō.
There are many pedestrians on the road.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 行人
多 嘴容易惹祸。
Duōzuǐ róngyì rěhuò.
Talking too much easily brings trouble.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 惹祸
你们班有 多 少人？
Nǐmen bān yǒu duōshao rén?
How many people are in your class?
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 多少
这件衣服 多 少钱？
Zhè jiàn yīfu duōshao qián?
How much is this piece of clothing?
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 钱
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From the graded readers
饭馆里人很 多 。
fàn guǎn lǐ rén hěnduō.
There were a lot of people in the restaurant.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · At the Restaurant
我们喝了很 多 水。
wǒmen hē / hè le / liǎo / liào hěnduō shuǐ.
We drank a lot of water.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · The Weather Today
菜很好吃，我吃了很 多 。
cài hěnhǎo chī, wǒ chīle hěnduō.
The food was delicious and I ate a lot.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · At the Restaurant
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
我们准备了很 多 吃的东西。
wǒmen zhǔnbèi le / liǎo / liào hěnduō chī de / dì dōngxī.
We got a lot of food ready.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day
路两边盖起了很 多 新房子。
lù liǎngbian gài qǐle hěnduō xīnfáng zǐ.
New buildings had gone up on both sides.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
商店里的衣服很 多 ，很漂亮。
shāngdiàn lǐ de / dì yīfu hěnduō, hěn piàoliang.
There were a lot of clothes in the shop and they were pretty.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going Shopping
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
这个比那个贵得 多 。
Zhège bǐ nàge guì de duō.
This one is much more expensive than that one.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 比 comparisons
多 appears in 372 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 多
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 多
How is 多 used in a sentence?
This page shows 372 sentences using 多 (duō, "Many (more - how)"), 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 多 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 多 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 多 an HSK word?
Yes — 多 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 多?
The dictionary page for 多 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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