I should stop procrastinating.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
做事
to work
IN A VIDEO做事
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to work
02
to handle matters
03
to have a job
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 做事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 做事 appears in 25 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You helped Mommy?
I plan to work in a brothel.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 做事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 做事.
Directly before
- 我做事3
- 他做事3
- 多做事1
- 妈妈做事1
- 的做事1
Directly after
- 做事的3
- 做事了2
- 做事总是2
- 做事很2
- 做事该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 做事
What does 做事 mean in Chinese?
做事 (zuòshì) means to work.
How do you pronounce 做事?
做事 is pronounced zuòshì.
Is 做事 an HSK word?
做事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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