然而

然而 rán'ér in a sentence

However (but)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

然而 (rán'ér) means However (but). 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

他很努力, 然而 结果并不好。

Tā hěn nǔlì, rán'ér jiéguǒ bìng bù hǎo.

He worked hard, yet the result was not good.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 然而

天气不好, 然而 比赛还是开始了。

Tiānqì bù hǎo, rán'ér bǐsài háishi kāishǐ le.

The weather was bad; nevertheless the match started.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 然而

Questions about 然而

How is 然而 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 然而 (rán'ér, "However (but)"), 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 然而 an HSK word?

Yes — 然而 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 然而 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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