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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

留给

liúgěi

to set aside for

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to set aside for

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 留给 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 留给 appears in 21 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我会留给你。wǒ huì liú gěi nǐ。

I'll leave that to you.

我把这个留给你。wǒ bǎ zhè ge liú gěi nǐ。

I'll leave this with you.

把这些座位留给老人。bǎ zhè xiē zuò wèi liú gěi lǎo rén。

Keep these seats for the elderly.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 留给.

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

Directly before

  • 他留给2
  • 工作留给2
  • 这个留给2
  • 东西留给2
  • 财产留给2

Directly after

  • 留给了6
  • 留给你4
  • 留给他3
  • 留给我2
  • 留给老人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 留给

What does 留给 mean in Chinese?

留给 (liúgěi) means to set aside for.

How do you pronounce 留给?

留给 is pronounced liúgěi.

Is 留给 an HSK word?

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

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