居然

居然 jūrán in a sentence

Unexpectedly (surprisingly)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

居然 (jūrán) means Unexpectedly (surprisingly). 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 居然 一个人完成了。

Tā jūrán yí ge rén wánchéng le.

He actually finished it all by himself.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 居然

这么难的题他 居然 做对了。

Zhème nán de tí tā jūrán zuò duì le.

He got such a hard question right, to my surprise.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 居然

哇,你 居然 做到了!

Wa, nǐ jūrán zuòdào le!

Wow, you actually did it!

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 哇

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How is 居然 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 居然 (jūrán, "Unexpectedly (surprisingly)"), 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 居然 an HSK word?

Yes — 居然 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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