Dan left Linda when life became unbearable with her.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
过日子
to live one's life
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to live one's life
02
to pass one's days
03
to get along
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 过日子 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 过日子 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 过日子.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 过日子.
Directly before
- 一起过日子1
- 老百姓过日子1
Directly after
- 过日子了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 过日子
What does 过日子 mean in Chinese?
过日子 (guòrìzi) means to live one's life.
How do you pronounce 过日子?
过日子 is pronounced guòrìzi.
Is 过日子 an HSK word?
过日子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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