He is near forty.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
四十
forty
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
forty
02
40
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 四十 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 四十 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
My father will soon be forty years old.
Did you just eat forty servings of pudding?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 四十.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 四十.
Directly before
- 在四十1
- 近四十1
- 快四十1
- 我四十1
- 了四十1
Directly after
- 四十平米1
- 四十人1
- 四十了1
- 四十来1
- 四十份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 四十
What does 四十 mean in Chinese?
四十 (sìshí) means forty.
How do you pronounce 四十?
四十 is pronounced sìshí.
Is 四十 an HSK word?
四十 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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