A fire broke out during that night.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
那天
that day
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
that day
02
the other day
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 那天 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 那天 appears in 61 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I lost my camera the other day.
Thanks very much for having me to dinner the other night.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 那天.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 那天.
Directly before
- 的那天9
- 生日那天7
- 日那天2
- 他那天2
- 忘记那天2
Directly after
- 那天我8
- 那天晚上6
- 那天很3
- 那天不能2
- 那天我们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 那天
What does 那天 mean in Chinese?
那天 (nàtiān) means that day.
How do you pronounce 那天?
那天 is pronounced nàtiān.
Is 那天 an HSK word?
那天 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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