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多久

duōjiǔ

(of time) how long?

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(of time) how long?

02

(not) a long time

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 多久 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 多久 appears in 145 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你待了多久?nǐ dài le duō jiǔ?

How long did you stay?

你准备待多久?nǐ zhǔn bèi dài duō jiǔ?

How long are you going to stay?

你多久后需要它?nǐ duō jiǔ hòu xū yào tā?

How soon do you need it?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 多久.

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

Directly before

  • 了多久25
  • 待多久20
  • 你多久11
  • 呆多久8
  • 要多久6

Directly after

  • 多久了44
  • 多久时间6
  • 多久就6
  • 多久的2
  • 多久吃2
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 多久

What does 多久 mean in Chinese?

多久 (duōjiǔ) means (of time) how long?.

How do you pronounce 多久?

多久 is pronounced duōjiǔ.

Is 多久 an HSK word?

多久 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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