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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

等一等

děngyīděng

wait a moment

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

wait a moment

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 等一等 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 等一等 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你得等一等看。nǐ dé děng yī děng kàn。

You will have to wait and see.

稍微等一等,马上就好!shāo wēi děng yī děng, mǎ shàng jiù hǎo!

Wait just a little bit. It'll be done immediately.

欢迎光临,现在人很多,请坐下来等一等。huān yíng guāng lín, xiàn zài rén hěn duō, qǐng zuò xià lái děng yī děng。

Welcome. Now that many people have arrived, please take a seat and wait for a while.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 等一等.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 等一等.

Directly before

  • 请坐下来等一等1
  • 稍微等一等1
  • 得等一等1
  • 不能等一等1

Directly after

  • 等一等看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 等一等

What does 等一等 mean in Chinese?

等一等 (děngyīděng) means wait a moment.

How do you pronounce 等一等?

等一等 is pronounced děngyīděng.

Is 等一等 an HSK word?

等一等 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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