老实

老实 lǎoshí in a sentence

Honest (good natured)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 4 sentences

老实 (lǎoshí) means Honest (good natured). 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

他是个 老实 人。

Tā shì ge lǎoshi rén.

He is an honest person.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 老实

老实 说,我不太同意。

Lǎoshi shuō, wǒ bú tài tóngyì.

Honestly speaking, I do not really agree.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 老实

太 老实 有时候会吃亏。

Tài lǎoshi yǒu shíhou huì chīkuī.

Being too honest can sometimes cost you.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 吃亏

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From the graded readers

我想了几秒钟,然后老 老实 实地说:“我做事太慢,因为我怕做错。”

wǒ xiǎng le / liǎo / liào jǐ / jī miǎo zhōng, ránhòu lǎo lǎoshí shí dì / de shuō:" wǒ zuòshì tài màn, yīnwèi wǒ pà zuòcuò."

I thought for a few seconds and then said honestly, "I work too slowly, because I'm afraid of making mistakes."

Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview

Questions about 老实

How is 老实 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 老实 (lǎoshí, "Honest (good natured)"), 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 老实 an HSK word?

Yes — 老实 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 老实?

The dictionary page for 老实 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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