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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
如果说
if
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
if
02
if one were to say
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 如果说 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 如果说 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 如果说.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 如果说.
Directly before
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
Directly after
- 如果说这场1
- 如果说几何学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 如果说
What does 如果说 mean in Chinese?
如果说 (rúguǒshuō) means if.
How do you pronounce 如果说?
如果说 is pronounced rúguǒshuō.
Is 如果说 an HSK word?
如果说 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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