She was a Brown before her marriage.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
婚前
premarital
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
premarital
02
prenuptial
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 婚前 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 婚前 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 婚前.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 婚前.
Directly before
- 她婚前2
- 在婚前1
- 看婚前1
Directly after
- 婚前张开1
- 婚前是1
- 婚前姓1
- 婚前试婚1
- 婚前性行为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 婚前
What does 婚前 mean in Chinese?
婚前 (hūnqián) means premarital.
How do you pronounce 婚前?
婚前 is pronounced hūnqián.
Is 婚前 an HSK word?
婚前 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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