来不及 lái bu jí in a sentence
there's not enough time (to do something); it's too late
来不及 (lái bu jí) means there's not enough time (to do something), it's too late. 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
现在走已经 来不及 了。
Xiànzài zǒu yǐjīng lái bu jí le.
It is already too late to leave now.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 来不及
时间太少，我 来不及 准备。
Shíjiān tài shǎo, wǒ lái bu jí zhǔnbèi.
There is too little time; I cannot get ready in time.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 来不及
恐怕今天 来不及 了。
Kǒngpà jīntiān lái bu jí le.
I am afraid there is not enough time today.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 恐怕
Questions about 来不及
How is 来不及 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 来不及 (lái bu jí, "there's not enough time (to do something), it's too late"), 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 来不及 an HSK word?
Yes — 来不及 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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