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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

跟上

gēnshàng

to catch up with

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to catch up with

02

to keep pace with

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 跟上 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 跟上 appears in 10 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

跟上那辆车。gēn shàng nà liàng chē。

Follow that car.

我无法跟上你。wǒ wú fǎ gēn shàng nǐ。

I can't keep up with you.

汤姆快跟上了,不是吗?tāng mǔ kuài gēn shàng le, bú shì ma?

Tom is gaining on us, isn't he?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 跟上.

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

Directly before

  • 能够跟上1
  • 无法跟上1
  • 能跟上1
  • 孩子跟上1
  • 难以跟上1

Directly after

  • 跟上人口1
  • 跟上你1
  • 跟上那么1
  • 跟上最近1
  • 跟上那辆车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 跟上

What does 跟上 mean in Chinese?

跟上 (gēnshàng) means to catch up with.

How do you pronounce 跟上?

跟上 is pronounced gēnshàng.

Is 跟上 an HSK word?

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

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