Sorry to let you wait for so long.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
久等
to wait for a long time
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to wait for a long time
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 久等 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 久等 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
So sorry to keep you waiting so long.
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 久等.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 久等.
Directly before
- 你久等3
- 您久等3
- 开始久等1
Directly after
- 久等了6
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 久等
What does 久等 mean in Chinese?
久等 (jiǔděng) means to wait for a long time.
How do you pronounce 久等?
久等 is pronounced jiǔděng.
Is 久等 an HSK word?
久等 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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