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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
几年
a few years; several years
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
a few years; several years
02
how many years?
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 几年 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 几年 appears in 25 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Gardening has been popular for some years.
We've been having strange weather the past few years.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 几年.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 几年.
Directly before
- 这几年7
- 最近几年2
- 前几年2
- 了几年2
- 学了几年2
Directly after
- 几年前3
- 几年了3
- 几年的2
- 几年很1
- 几年到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 几年
What does 几年 mean in Chinese?
几年 (jǐnián) means a few years; several years.
How do you pronounce 几年?
几年 is pronounced jǐnián.
Is 几年 an HSK word?
几年 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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