浪费

浪费 làngfèi in a sentence

Waste (squander)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 4 sentences

浪费 (làngfèi) means Waste (squander). Below are 4 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

我们不应该 浪费 食物。

Wǒmen bù yīnggāi làngfèi shíwù.

We should not waste food.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 浪费

这样做太 浪费 时间了。

Zhèyàng zuò tài làngfèi shíjiān le.

Doing it this way wastes too much time.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 浪费

我们要减少 浪费

Wǒmen yào jiǎnshǎo làngfèi.

We must cut down on waste.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 减少

From the graded readers

我总觉得自己在 浪费 时间。

wǒ zǒng juéde zìjǐ zài làngfèi shíjiān.

I kept feeling I was wasting time.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure

Questions about 浪费

How is 浪费 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 浪费 (làngfèi, "Waste (squander)"), 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 浪费 an HSK word?

Yes — 浪费 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 浪费 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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