He still comes to see me now and then.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
时不时
from time to time
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
from time to time
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 时不时 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 时不时 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We go fishing from time to time.
I hear from my mother once in a while.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 时不时.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 时不时.
Directly before
- 他时不时2
- 我时不时2
- 会时不时2
- 仍然时不时1
- 我们时不时1
Directly after
- 时不时地去2
- 时不时会2
- 时不时地1
- 时不时来看1
- 时不时得到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 时不时
What does 时不时 mean in Chinese?
时不时 (shíbùshí) means from time to time.
How do you pronounce 时不时?
时不时 is pronounced shíbùshí.
Is 时不时 an HSK word?
时不时 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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