等待

等待 děngdài in a sentence

Wait for

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 1 sentence

等待 (děngdài) means Wait for. Below is the one sentence on this site that uses it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他挨了很长时间的 等待

Tā ái le hěn cháng shíjiān de děngdài.

He endured a long wait.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 ·

Questions about 等待

How is 等待 used in a sentence?

This page shows 1 sentence using 等待 (děngdài, "Wait for"), 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 等待 an HSK word?

Yes — 等待 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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