He sometimes drops in on me.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
有时候
sometimes
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
sometimes
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 有时候 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 有时候 appears in 70 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Patience is sometimes the most effective weapon.
She sometimes has her mother cut her hair.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 有时候.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 有时候.
Directly before
- 我有时候6
- 他有时候5
- 耐心有时候1
- 她有时候1
- 盲人有时候1
Directly after
- 有时候会8
- 有时候你4
- 有时候是3
- 有时候我会3
- 有时候也3
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 有时候
What does 有时候 mean in Chinese?
有时候 (yǒushíhou) means sometimes.
How do you pronounce 有时候?
有时候 is pronounced yǒushíhou.
Is 有时候 an HSK word?
有时候 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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