年代

年代 niándài in a sentence

Decade (period - age - era)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 8 sentences

年代 (niándài) means Decade (period - age - era). Below are 8 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

这是九十 年代 的歌。

Zhè shì jiǔshí niándài de gē.

This is a song from the nineties.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 年代

那个 年代 生活很简单。

Nàge niándài shēnghuó hěn jiǎndān.

Life was simple in that era.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 年代

这本书讲的是战争 年代 。

Zhè běn shū jiǎng de shì zhànzhēng niándài.

This book is about the years of war.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 战争

那是一个经济昌盛的 年代 。

Nà shì yí ge jīngjì chāngshèng de niándài.

That was an age of economic prosperity.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 昌盛

那是一个社会动荡的 年代 。

Nà shì yí ge shèhuì dòngdàng de niándài.

That was an era of social upheaval.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 动荡

这栋楼建于上世纪五十 年代 。

Zhè dòng lóu jiàn yú shàng shìjì wǔshí niándài.

This building was put up in the nineteen-fifties.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 栋

他们在那个 年代 受到过迫害。

Tāmen zài nàge niándài shòudào guo pòhài.

They suffered persecution in that era.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 迫害

这项技术诞生于上世纪八十 年代 。

Zhè xiàng jìshù dànshēng yú shàng shìjì bāshí niándài.

This technology was born in the nineteen-eighties.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 诞生

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How is 年代 used in a sentence?

This page shows 8 sentences using 年代 (niándài, "Decade (period - age - era)"), 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 年代 an HSK word?

Yes — 年代 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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