暂时

暂时 zànshí in a sentence

Temporary (provisional)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

暂时 (zànshí) means Temporary (provisional). Below are 2 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

暂时 不在家。

Tā zànshí bú zài jiā.

He is not at home for the moment.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 暂时

这个问题 暂时 解决不了。

Zhège wèntí zànshí jiějué bu liǎo.

This problem cannot be solved for now.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 暂时

Questions about 暂时

How is 暂时 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 暂时 (zànshí, "Temporary (provisional)"), 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 暂时 an HSK word?

Yes — 暂时 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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The dictionary page for 暂时 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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