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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

当着

dāngzhe

in front of

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

in front of

02

in the presence of

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 当着 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 当着 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我好多朋友说,来了法国养成一个臭毛病,就是当着法国人的面直接评论,反正法国人听不懂。wǒ hǎo duō péng yǒu shuō, lái le fǎ guó yǎng chéng yí gè chòu máo bìng, jiù shì dāng zhāo fǎ guó rén de miàn zhí jiē píng lùn, fǎn zhèng fǎ guó rén tīng bù dǒng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

为了避风头,也为了你的任务能更好进行,半年前,我才当着所有同学的面骂你是汉奸,从而跟你决裂,真是委屈你了。wèi le bì fēng tou, yě wèi le nǐ de rèn wù néng gèng hǎo jìn xíng, bàn nián qián, wǒ cái dāng zhe suǒ yǒu tóng xué de miàn mà nǐ shì hàn jiān, cóng ér gēn nǐ jué liè, zhēn shì wěi qū nǐ le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 当着.

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

Directly before

  • 就是当着1
  • 才当着1

Directly after

  • 当着法国人1
  • 当着所有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 当着

What does 当着 mean in Chinese?

当着 (dāngzhe) means in front of.

How do you pronounce 当着?

当着 is pronounced dāngzhe.

Is 当着 an HSK word?

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

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