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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

就要

jiùyào

will

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

will

02

shall

03

to be going to

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 就要 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 就要 appears in 114 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

春天就要来了。chūn tiān jiù yào lái le。

Spring will come soon.

就要说出口了。jiù yào shuō chū kǒu le。

It's on the tip of my tongue.

这就要看你了。zhè jiù yào kàn nǐ le。

It's up to you.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 就要.

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

Directly before

  • 很快就要11
  • 马上就要9
  • 我就要9
  • 你就要8
  • 明天就要5

Directly after

  • 就要迟到6
  • 就要来5
  • 就要到4
  • 就要开始4
  • 就要看3
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 就要

What does 就要 mean in Chinese?

就要 (jiùyào) means will.

How do you pronounce 就要?

就要 is pronounced jiùyào.

Is 就要 an HSK word?

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

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