说服

说服 shuōfú in a sentence

Persuade (convince)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 2 sentences

说服 (shuōfú) means Persuade (convince). 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

我 说服 了他一起去。

Wǒ shuō fú le tā yìqǐ qù.

I persuaded him to come along.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 说服

他的理由很有 说服 力。

Tā de lǐyóu hěn yǒu shuō fú lì.

His reasons are very convincing.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 说服

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How is 说服 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 说服 (shuōfú, "Persuade (convince)"), 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 说服 an HSK word?

Yes — 说服 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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