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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

从没

cóngméi

never (in the past)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

never (in the past)

02

never did

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 从没 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 从没 appears in 84 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我从没去过欧洲。wǒ cóng méi qù guò ōu zhōu。

I've never been to Europe.

我以前从没见过她。wǒ yǐ qián cóng méi jiàn guò tā。

Never have I seen her before.

不,她从没恋爱过。bù, tā cóng méi liàn ài guò。

No, she has never fallen in love.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 从没.

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

Directly before

  • 我从没51
  • 他从没7
  • 以前从没5
  • 她从没4
  • 你从没4

Directly after

  • 从没见过14
  • 从没见9
  • 从没去过7
  • 从没想过5
  • 从没看过4
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 从没

What does 从没 mean in Chinese?

从没 (cóngméi) means never (in the past).

How do you pronounce 从没?

从没 is pronounced cóngméi.

Is 从没 an HSK word?

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

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