He was a millionaire not long ago.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不久前
not long ago
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not long ago
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不久前 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不久前 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Have you seen Tom recently?
Our venue wasn't renovated too long ago.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不久前.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不久前.
Directly before
- 我不久前1
- 场地不久前1
- 他不久前1
- 你不久前1
Directly after
- 不久前出1
- 不久前翻新1
- 不久前是1
- 不久前有1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不久前
What does 不久前 mean in Chinese?
不久前 (bùjiǔqián) means not long ago.
How do you pronounce 不久前?
不久前 is pronounced bùjiǔqián.
Is 不久前 an HSK word?
不久前 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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