Tom never takes the elevator.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
坐电梯
to take an elevator
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to take an elevator
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 坐电梯 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 坐电梯 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I took the lift to the second floor.
I took the lift to the second floor.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 坐电梯.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 坐电梯.
Directly before
- 我坐电梯2
- 从不坐电梯1
- 不敢坐电梯1
Directly after
- 坐电梯去2
- 坐电梯上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 坐电梯
What does 坐电梯 mean in Chinese?
坐电梯 (zuòdiàntī) means to take an elevator.
How do you pronounce 坐电梯?
坐电梯 is pronounced zuòdiàntī.
Is 坐电梯 an HSK word?
坐电梯 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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