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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

买菜

mǎicài

to buy groceries

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to buy groceries

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 买菜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 买菜 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我会帮你买菜,打扫,以及做晚餐。wǒ huì bāng nǐ mǎi cài, dǎ sǎo, yǐ jí zuò wǎn cān。

I'll do your shopping, clean up the house, and cook your dinner for you.

我喜欢去菜场买菜。wǒ xǐ huān qù cài chǎng mǎi cài。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 买菜.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 买菜.

Directly before

  • 你买菜1
  • 菜场买菜1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 买菜

What does 买菜 mean in Chinese?

买菜 (mǎicài) means to buy groceries.

How do you pronounce 买菜?

买菜 is pronounced mǎicài.

Is 买菜 an HSK word?

买菜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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