差不多

差不多 chàbuduō in a sentence

Almost

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 3 sentences

差不多 (chàbuduō) means Almost. 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.

From the graded readers

画笔在盒子里放了 差不多 十年。

huà bǐ zài hézi lǐ fàng le / liǎo / liào chàbuduō shínián.

The brushes sat in a box for nearly ten years.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty

那天下午,礼堂里坐了 差不多 三百个人。

nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ, lǐtáng lǐ zuò le / liǎo / liào chàbuduō sānbǎi gèrén.

That afternoon there were nearly three hundred people in the hall.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech

我把这个想法告诉几个朋友的时候,反应 差不多 都一样。

wǒ bǎ zhège xiǎngfǎ gàosu jǐge péngyou de / dì shíhou, fǎnyìng chàbuduō dōu yíyàng.

When I told a few friends the idea, the reaction was much the same from all of them.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty

Questions about 差不多

How is 差不多 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 差不多 (chàbuduō, "Almost"), 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 差不多 an HSK word?

Yes — 差不多 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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