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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

干什么

gànshénme

what are you doing?

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

what are you doing?

02

what's he up to?

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

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.

你在干什么?nǐ zài gàn shén me?

What are you doing?

您要它干什么?nín yào tā gàn shén me?

What do you want it for?

你要它干什么?nǐ yào tā gàn shén me?

What do you want it for?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

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
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 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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