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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

到时候

dàoshíhòu

when the moment comes

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

when the moment comes

02

at that time

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 到时候 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 到时候 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

到时候见。dào shí hòu jiàn。

See you then.

到时候我们再考虑吧。dào shí hòu wǒ men zài kǎo lǜ ba。

We'll think about it in due time.

她只说到时候你们就知道了。tā zhǐ shuō dào shí hòu nǐ men jiù zhī dào le。

All she said was that we would know when the time came.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 到时候.

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

Directly before

  • 说到时候1
  • 免得到时候1

Directly after

  • 到时候会2
  • 到时候你们1
  • 到时候我们1
  • 到时候见1
  • 到时候都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 到时候

What does 到时候 mean in Chinese?

到时候 (dàoshíhòu) means when the moment comes.

How do you pronounce 到时候?

到时候 is pronounced dàoshíhòu.

Is 到时候 an HSK word?

到时候 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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