What are you doing?
干什么
what are you doing?
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Meaning and common use
what are you doing?
what's he up to?
How 干什么 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 干什么 appears in 33 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
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Words that keep company with 干什么.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 干什么.
Directly before
- 该干什么4
- 在干什么4
- 要干什么3
- 你干什么3
- 是干什么2
Directly after
- 干什么的2
- 干什么呢2
- 干什么慢腾腾1
- 干什么工作1
- 干什么了1
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.
About 干什么
What does 干什么 mean in Chinese?
干什么 (gànshénme) means what are you doing?.
How do you pronounce 干什么?
干什么 is pronounced gànshénme.
Is 干什么 an HSK word?
干什么 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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