老师 (lǎoshī) means Teacher. Below are 24 of the 51 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
From the graded readers
我的 老师 姓王。
wǒ de(possessive) lǎoshī xìng wáng.
My teacher's surname is Wang.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
李 老师 上课非常认真。
lǐ lǎoshī shàng kè fēicháng rènzhēn.
Teacher Li is extremely conscientious in class.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
我爸爸是 老师 ，他很忙。
wǒ bàba shì lǎoshī, tā hěn máng.
My dad is a teacher and he's very busy.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Family
王 老师 很好，他说话很慢。
wáng lǎoshī hěnhǎo, tā shuōhuà hěn màn.
Mr Wang is very good — he speaks slowly.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
王 老师 说：“不要怕，多说，多听。”
wáng lǎoshīshuō:" bùyào pà, duō shuō, duō tīng / tìng."
Mr Wang says, "Don't be afraid — speak more, listen more."
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
我的中文 老师 姓李，我们都叫她李 老师 。
wǒ de(possessive) zhōngwén lǎoshī xìng lǐ, wǒmen dōu jiào tā lǐ lǎoshī.
My Chinese teacher's surname is Li; we all call her Teacher Li.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
李 老师 跟我说：“慢一点儿没关系，别停下来。”
lǐ lǎoshī gēn wǒ shuō:" màn yīdiǎn ér méiguānxi, bié tíngxìalái."
Teacher Li said to me, "Slower is fine — just don't stop."
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
老师 的名字很长。
Lǎoshī de míngzi hěn cháng.
The teacher's name is long.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 的 for possession and description
他被 老师 批评了。
Tā bèi lǎoshī pīpíng le.
He was told off by the teacher.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · 被 passive
老师 appears in 51 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 老师
How is 老师 used in a sentence?
This page shows 51 sentences using 老师 (lǎoshī, "Teacher"), 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 老师 an HSK word?
Yes — 老师 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 老师?
The dictionary page for 老师 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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