It was not long before we met again by chance.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
没多久
before long
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
before long
02
soon after
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 没多久 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 没多久 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 没多久.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 没多久.
Directly before
- 排队没多久1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 没多久
What does 没多久 mean in Chinese?
没多久 (méiduōjiǔ) means before long.
How do you pronounce 没多久?
没多久 is pronounced méiduōjiǔ.
Is 没多久 an HSK word?
没多久 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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