I married eight years ago.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
年前
by the end of the year
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
by the end of the year
02
at the end of the year; shortly before New Year
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 年前 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 年前 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
We go back 60 years.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 年前.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 年前.
Directly before
- 一百六十年前1
Directly after
- 年前的3
- 年前由1
- 年前就1
- 年前第一次1
- 年前开埠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 年前
What does 年前 mean in Chinese?
年前 (niánqián) means by the end of the year.
How do you pronounce 年前?
年前 is pronounced niánqián.
Is 年前 an HSK word?
年前 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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