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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

等等

děngděng

et cetera

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

et cetera

02

and so on

03

wait a minute!

04

hold on!

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 等等 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 等等 appears in 34 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

等等,有人在敲我的门。děng děng, yǒu rén zài qiāo wǒ de mén。

Hold on, someone is knocking at my door.

你喜欢戏剧, 电影等等吗?nǐ xǐ huān xì jù, diàn yǐng děng děng ma?

Do you enjoy plays, films and such?

他问了我的年龄、姓名、地址等等。tā wèn le wǒ de nián líng、 xìng míng、 dì zhǐ děng děng。

He asked me my age, my name, my address, and so forth.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 等等.

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

Directly before

  • 再等等2
  • 地址等等1
  • 绿洲等等1
  • 同学等等1
  • 能力等等1

Directly after

  • 等等吗2
  • 等等我2
  • 等等看会1
  • 等等汤姆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 等等

What does 等等 mean in Chinese?

等等 (děngděng) means et cetera.

How do you pronounce 等等?

等等 is pronounced děngděng.

Is 等等 an HSK word?

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

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