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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

欠债

qiànzhài

to owe a debt

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to owe a debt

02

the sum owed

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 欠债 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 欠债 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我不欠债。wǒ bù qiàn zhài。

I have no debt.

他欠债了。tā qiàn zhài le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

父亲成了我欠债的保证人。fù qīn chéng le wǒ qiàn zhài de bǎo zhèng rén。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 欠债.

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

Directly before

  • 他欠债1
  • 不欠债1
  • 我欠债1

Directly after

  • 欠债了1
  • 欠债的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 欠债

What does 欠债 mean in Chinese?

欠债 (qiànzhài) means to owe a debt.

How do you pronounce 欠债?

欠债 is pronounced qiànzhài.

Is 欠债 an HSK word?

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

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