I'm getting old.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
变老
to grow old
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to grow old
02
to age
03
aging
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 变老 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 变老 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm starting to get old!
My father grew old.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 变老.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 变老.
Directly before
- 没人想变老1
- 爸爸变老1
- 开始变老1
- 父亲变老1
- 不想变老1
Directly after
- 变老了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 变老
What does 变老 mean in Chinese?
变老 (biànlǎo) means to grow old.
How do you pronounce 变老?
变老 is pronounced biànlǎo.
Is 变老 an HSK word?
变老 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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