I don't want to celebrate my birthday.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
过生日
to celebrate a birthday
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to celebrate a birthday
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 过生日 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 过生日 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Whose birthday was it yesterday?
In my family there are two birthdays in September.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 过生日.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 过生日.
Directly before
- 不想过生日1
- 他过生日1
- 有人过生日1
- 谁过生日1
- 两人过生日1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 过生日
What does 过生日 mean in Chinese?
过生日 (guòshēngrì) means to celebrate a birthday.
How do you pronounce 过生日?
过生日 is pronounced guòshēngrì.
Is 过生日 an HSK word?
过生日 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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