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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

跟着

gēnzhe

to follow after

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to follow after

02

immediately afterwards

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 跟着 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 跟着 appears in 31 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我跟着鹿的踪迹。wǒ gēn zhe lù de zōng jì。

I followed the deer's tracks.

两个侦探跟着嫌疑人。liǎng gè zhēn tàn gēn zhe xián yí rén。

Two detectives followed the suspect.

我跟着他去了房间里。wǒ gēn zhe tā qù le fáng jiān lǐ。

I followed him into his room.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 跟着.

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

Directly before

  • 我跟着3
  • 汤姆跟着3
  • 会跟着2
  • 他们跟着2
  • 狗跟着2

Directly after

  • 跟着我们4
  • 跟着她3
  • 跟着他3
  • 跟着鹿2
  • 跟着来2
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 跟着

What does 跟着 mean in Chinese?

跟着 (gēnzhe) means to follow after.

How do you pronounce 跟着?

跟着 is pronounced gēnzhe.

Is 跟着 an HSK word?

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

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